~ I was going to try to combine this episode into one chapter... but I decided against it. I feel like if I don't update at least one story once a week... I go a little crazy. *sigh* (:
~ For those of you that missed Damon in the last chapter... you will have some Chelsea/Damon moments in the beginning of this chapter and maybe a small one at the end of the chapter.

SomebodyWhoCares: I think Damon will definitely be mad/upset that she is helping him, especially since it's possible that he might find out about the compulsion soon. *evil smirk*. Chelsea won't be too happy with him either, especially with what she will learn in this chapter.

ENJOY!

Chelsea's POV

After Klaus left, I decided to put Anna in her crib. When I did that I went to my room and fell asleep. There was times in the middle of the night when I thought I heard her crying, but it never lasted long. I didn't hear my brother or Bridget come back, so I thought they could have spent the whole night out. I turned to my side and felt something next to me.
"Damon?" I asked as I slowly opened my eyes. He smirked.
"About time you woke up." He said.
"What are you doing here?" I asked him.
"You weren't in your room or mine, so I checked here."
"I had to watch Anna for the night."
"I know. You're brother was surprised to see me in her room last night."
"You were in Anna's room?" I asked with surprise.
"Don't sound soo surprised." I slightly smiled. "I'm actually good with children." 'What if I wasn't a vampire?' I asked myself.
"Out of pure curiosity..." I started to say as I moved into a sitting position "... would you still be with me if I wasn't a vampire?"
"Why are you asking me that?" Damon asked me with some surprise.
"It's just..." I let out a sigh "... hypothetically speaking, if there was a cure for immortality and I would take it, would you stay with me?"
"I love you." He cupped my face before kissing me. "What makes you think about that?" 'I can't tell him about the possible cure' I thought. Klaus didn't tell me to keep it a secret, but I figured that it should be kept a secret.
"It's just with my brother here with Anna, it makes me think about being able to have a family."
"So, you miss being human?" He asked as he gently grabbed my hand. I just nodded my head.
"I like being a vampire, minus the enhanced emotions and need for blood, but I do want a family."
"I would just have to be careful with you then." I looked at Damon. "But I don't have to now." He made me lay back down and started to kiss me.
"So, that would be a yes?" I asked, somewhat distracted by Damon.
"Of course." He whispered in my ear before kissing my neck.
"What about my brother?"
"Don't be such a party pooper Chels." He said with a small smirk before kissing down my neck.
There were footsteps in the hall, but Damon didn't stop.
"Not with my sister." I heard Dylan groan. Damon slowed down and we both looked towards my brother.
"He started it." I said.
"Yes, blame me." Damon said as he looked at me.
"Well, you did start it." I said to Damon, which made him smirk.
"Okay, so when you two lovebirds are done, there's food downstairs." My brother said before walking downstairs.
"We're alone again." Damon whispered in my ear.
"They might not have super hearing, but they know what we're doing." I said, which made Damon pout. "Don't pout, it's not attractive on a man your age." He just smirked before kissing me again. "Damon."
"Be a party pooper then." He said as he stopped.
"Always a party pooper." I said, pushing him off to the side. "I have to take a shower and no you can't join me." I said before Damon could say anything.
"Why are you mean to me?" He asked, which made me smirk at him.
"That list is way too long." I said, joking with him before going into the bathroom.

When I got out of the bathroom, Damon was gone. 'He would stay with me if I was human' I thought with a small smile as I looked through my closet. There wasn't much in it, which either meant I had to go shopping or put some of my clothes from the boarding house in it. I picked out some basic black pants and an aqua blue T-shirt. When I had them on, I picked up my phone and saw that I had two texts. One from Klaus and one from Bonnie. I looked at the one from Bonnie first, because she sent it last night after I put my phone on silent.

'It looked like Elena was dancing dirty with Damon. I couldn't stop them and it didn't look like Damon wanted to' I felt sad that he didn't tell me when he was over before.
'Why?'I asked myself before checking the text from Klaus.

'The Hunter got loose and he has werewolf venom. He needs to stay alive. Stefan has that covered, but be careful.' I slightly smiled, knowing that he cared about my safety.
'I can take care of myself :) but I'll be careful' I texted back before butting my phone on vibrate and slipping it into my pocket. 'He would have told me'I thought about Klaus if we were together and someone had danced that close to him. I let out a sigh, trying not to think about it before going downstairs to hang out with my brother.

I didn't even tell him about the possible cure or even ask him what I asked Damon.
"Hey Dyl." I said when I walked into the kitchen. "Did Damon say where he was going?"
"I didn't know he left." He said.
"He must of snuck out." I said before taking a pretzel that was in a bowl. "He said he took care of Anna while I was sleeping."
"I was surprised to." Dylan said as he held a plate towards me. "Eat." I took the plate from him and smiled.

After eating with my brother, I decided to go to the boarding house to get a blood bag and to look at my clothes. Some of the clothes I liked, but almost never wore. 'Those can go to the other room' I thought when the image of the almost empty closet appeared in my head. My eyes went to the bottom of my closet to the box that Klaus had given me. 'Maybe those should go there to' I thought before bending down with the clothes I wanted to move in my hands. Nothing inside the box was touched since I put it in my closet that night. I decided to open the box, to see if there was enough room to put the other clothes in. When there was, I neatly and carefully put the clothes on top of the stuff Klaus gave me before my phone vibrated.
'The hunter has hostages at the Grill. Strategy meeting at the Lockwood's. ~ Damon'
I found myself letting out a sigh, knowing that Damon would want Connor dead. He needed to stay alive, why, I didn't know. Klaus said that Connor needed to stay alive, but he also said that Stefan had that covered. I grabbed my keys and made sure I had my phone before I left the house.

I walked into the Lockwood mansion to see Tyler, Damon and Elena. Damon turned towards me as I entered the room where they were all in.
"Hey." I said to them. I wanted to say something about what Bonnie texted me, but I kept it to myself. The hunter situation was more important at the moment and we didn't need another problem. I wasn't going to bring it up with Damon right away, because I've kept the compulsion that Klaus did a secret, even though I should have told Damon. I sat down in a chair, not really wanting to stand. "So, what's the plan?"
"We each take a different entrance," Damon said, referring to all four of us ", hit them at the same time." 'That does sound good' I thought.
"There would be no way out." I said out loud.
"That's the point." Damon said before Stefan walked in the room.
"Stefan." Elena said as she walked over to him.
"Where the hell have you been?" Damon asked him as Elena hugged him.
"Coming up with a plan." Stefan said to Damon. 'Or talking to Klaus' I thought, but didn't say it out loud.
"Yeah, we have a plan." Damon said as he glanced at me, which made me look up at Stefan. "The plan is I'm gonna rip Connor's heart out and I'm going to feed it to him."
"That's not a plan." Stefan said as he glanced at me. 'I can't tell Damon that Klaus needed Connor alive.' I thought. "We need to be careful. Connor has Jeremy and who knows how many other hostages."
"Hence, the open heart surgery." Damon said before I stood up.
"Damon's right." Elena said, looking between all of us. "Connor's strong, but he's not going to be able to take all of us."
"But do we have to kill him?" I asked, hoping there was another way. "Couldn't knock him out and put him somewhere where there is no chance of escaping?"
"Then what?" Elena asked. "Do this all over again when he breaks free?" I let out a sigh.
"I called in the hybrids to help too." Tyler said just before Caroline walked in.
"My mom put squad cars blocking the streets." She said with her phone in her hand. "They're saying it's a faulty gas main. We're good to go."
"Good, great." Damon said, which brought my attention back to him. "No cops, no witnesses, no reason to wait around."
"Alright, hold on, you're not all going." Stefan looked at Caroline, Elena, and me.
"He shot me like nine times." Tyler said. "If we're killing him, I want in."
"He's got Jeremy." Elena said. "I'm going."
"Listen, nobody is going anywhere until I figure out what we're walking into."
"I'm with Stefan." I said after Stefan spoke, which earned a slightly surprised look from Damon.
"Until you figure it out?" Damon asked Stefan after looking from me. "Is that where you've been all morning? Out buying bossy pants."
"This guy is known for setting traps, right?" Stefan asked, mainly towards Damon and Elena. "We'd be pretty dumb to walk into one, especially if he has werewolf venom." 'Klaus won't be able to cure anyone' I thought.
"Does he?" Elena asked Stefan.
"He's had it before." I said, glancing at her before looking at Damon. He didn't look like the happiest person.
"Fine." Damon reluctantly said. "Fine, if you want to take some time to do recon, you get one hour. But we're gonna need some extra help. So, Chelsea's coming... unless our wicked witch of the west can help." 'Great, so I'm a second choice now?' I asked myself.
"She can't do magic." Caroline said, referring to Bonnie.
"Really?" Damon asked Caroline after glancing at me. "Well, call her, tell her Jeremy's life is in danger; maybe that will bring her out of retirement." He stepped in front of me. "I'm not letting you out of my sight." He said protectively before he took me with him as he walked out of the room.

'This is great.' I thought to myself sarcastically. This is the one time that I didn't want Damon to be so protective. Besides the secret of compulsion, I'm not telling him that Stefan and I are sort of working with Klaus. There was also the secret of knowing what he and Elena did when they went to the college. A lot of things seem to be piling up on my side when thinking about my relationship with Damon.

~ So.. Klaus wants Chelsea to be safe and she is looking at her relationship with Damon. I wanted to have the Chelsea/Damon scene in the beginning of the chapter.
~ I have plans with how I want the Damon/Chelsea/Klaus triangle to progress... definitely Klaus/Chelsea scenes in the future (not in the next chapter) and with a jealous Damon. I'm not going to go into details.. because I don't want to spoil it :)

~ In the next chapter, I want to have Chelsea become 'indisposed' for a little bit... like how Damon became when Stefan injected him with vervain. I had a couple ideas on how to do it, but I want to hear your ideas. Should her neck be snapped? Should she be injected with an extra thing of vervain? Or something else?

~ I hope to have the next chapter up within the next couple of days. I am also working on a chapter for 'The Salvatore Sister' and I'm also working on my second Klaorline Oneshot that I've had in the works for the past couple of months. I hope to get it up before the end of the year.

R&R 'till the next update