The girls were in the Salvatore's library. Damon was talking with Rose. "I brought every book full of healing spells and research." Terra said.
"Hopefully we'll find something in here that will help." Vanessa said.
"I've healed several injuries, but a wolf bite is new." Marina said. "It might take a while."
"Come on, it's just a little werewolf bite." Damon was telling Rose.
"Just a little, fatal to a vampire werewolf bite." She pointed out.
"Well, according to a legend which is notoriously unreliable source."
"I'm sorry, but even you have to know that most legends are based on the truth." Terra said.
"Yeah, like us, for example." Lea pointed out.
"Okay, I've been wrong before." Damon said. He handed Rose a glass full of blood. "Come on, blood heals." Reluctantly, she drank it.
"Yeah, it does feel like it's working."
"Let's have a look, come on. Let me see." The girls came over to see how bad the injury was. They were surprised when they saw the mark, looking infected and bad.
Vanessa turned away, getting sick herself. "Easy, Vanessa." Marina said, putting a hand on her shoulder.
"I know, it's really bad." Terra thought to the girls.
"I'm sure we'll find something, especially now that we know what it looks like." She heard Lea thinking.
"How is it?" Rose asked. The girls decided not to answer. Luckily, Damon came to their rescue.
"Definitely better. Right, Elena?" They looked up and saw that Elena had entered the room. She was surprised at the injuries.
"Uh, it's not bad." She said.
"Where's Stefan?"
"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."
"No can do. I'm with Stefan on this one but if you could play nurse for a little while…" Damon told her.
"It's not necessary." Rose told him.
"It is necessary. Elena is a do-gooder. It's in her nature, she just can't resist." The group minus Rose followed him out into the hallway.
"Damon. Is she gonna die?" Elena asked.
"Probably. The wolf bite caused some kind of infection and it's getting worse."
"Like poison?"
"I don't know, Elena. I'm not an expert in the field."
"Well, maybe there's something in one of our healing books that can cure it." Terra told them. "But there's no way to know for sure."
"I'm sorry."
"Death happens. We come, we go. Sooner she dies will better. It's gloomy as hell in here."
"We better stay here and help Lena out. If Rose is sick, then it may not turn out so well for either one of them." Marina said.
"Vanessa and I will start looking through the spell books." Terra said.
"Actually, we better have Lea look it up in my place." Vanessa said. "I think I'd rather not have another accidental house fire."
"Fine, you two switch places." Terra said. "We better get to work." She and Lea started going through the spell books. After a few minutes, they still had nothing.
"There's nothing in here." Lea said. "The closest thing we have is a cure for a skin condition."
"Well, we can't give up yet." Terra said. "We've still got like five more to get through."
"And I thought the only worse than helping Damon was helping another vampire."
"You're starting to sound like one of those witches, Lea. It's not in our nature to judge them." Terra pointed out. "Even if they have hurt us in the past."
"Please, I'm over it. What will it take for you to believe me?"
Upstairs, Marina and Vanessa helped Elena get Rose to Damon's room. "I hate this. I'm a vampire, I've never had a cold in five centuries." She told them.
"Just get in the bed." Elena told her.
"We don't get sick. When we die, it's fast and sudden and it's certainly not drawn out in illness."
"You're not gonna die." Elena told her.
"Such a human thing to say." Rose said.
"We're going to try everything we can to prevent that from happening." Marina told the vampire.
"Thanks, but I'm afraid there might not be much time." Rose told her. Elena was glancing around the room. "You've never been in Damon's room before, have you?" She asked. "Not what you expected?"
"It's just a room with a bed. Maybe I expected them to be silk sheets." Elena said.
"You're telling me. I never expected it to look so…normal." Vanessa added.
"You're lucky, you know. No one's ever love me the way you're loved." Rose told Elena.
"I doubt that." Elena said.
"Trevor was my best friend. Nothing more." Rose explained. "I spent all these 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."
"Kinda sad when you think about it." Marina said.
"At least they can try to keep in touch with others." Vanessa pointed out.
"Why are you so eager to give up?" Rose asked Elena.
"I'm not giving up on anything." Elena told her.
"What do you call this deal with Elijah?"
"I call it my best option."
"It's the easiest option."
"That's not fair."
"Do you really think that your witch friend destroyed the moonstone?"
"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." Elena told her.
"What did I miss while I was gone the other night?" Vanessa asked Marina.
"I'll explain later." Marina told her.
"You really are determined to die, aren't you? At least I ran, you're not even trying." Rose pointed out. She fell asleep a few minutes later.
"So, what do you think we should do?" Vanessa asked.
"Maybe I can try to heal her while she's resting." Marina said. "It might make it easier."
"Let's see what they found." Vanessa suggested. They started to leave the room.
"No, stop, wait." The girls turned around to find Rose talking in her sleep. "Tell them to prepare the horses."
"It's okay Rose. Just get some sleep." Elena told her. "You'll feel better when you'll wake up."
"Trevor, don't be so stupid. You'll never going to make it there before the sun." Suddenly, she got up. She was clearly in pain.
"It's getting worse, isn't it?" Marina said.
"You think so, Marina?" Vanessa asked sarcastically.
"Guys, I need more blood."
"Yeah, of course, here." Elena handed Rose a glass of blood. She ended up spitting it back out.
"And I thought the bite mark was…" Vanessa started.
"Not now." Marina told her. Elena headed into the bathroom for a second. When she got out, Rose wasn't there.
"Where'd she go?" Elena asked.
"I don't know, she went as fast as the wind." Vanessa said. "I think she went that way." She pointed. Suddenly, Rose pushed Elena against the wall.
"Everything's your fault, Katerina." She growled.
"She's hallucinating." Marina realized.
"Let's get her off Lena." Vanessa said. She was fully prepared to use a wind gust to separate them.
"You betrayed us!"
"I'm not Katherine!" Elena screamed.
"Elena?" The girls relaxed as Rose let go of her.
"It's me, it's Elena."
"Oh my god, Elena. I'm so sorry." Rose told her. "I don't know what's happening to me. I'm sorry."
"You're gonna be alright." Elena said.
"My mind, I'm…"
"It was just for a second."
"I'm sorry, don't be scared of me."
"I'm not. I'm not but you need to rest."
"Stay with Elena." Marina told Vanessa. "I'm going downstairs to tell the others what happened." She turned and left the room.
Downstairs, Marina came into the room as they did the research. "Hey, it's getting worse." She told them.
"What happened?" Lea asked.
"She tried to attack Elena thinking she was Katherine." Marina explained. "And she had trouble holding blood down before that."
"Sounds almost like she has a bad case of the flu." Terra said.
"We need to figure out how to handle this, fast." Lea pointed out. "The last thing we need is a sick vampire running around killing people."
"I think I should try one of my healing spells." Marina told them. "In case something happens."
"Hold on, I think I'm going to check in on them." Lea said. "I want to make sure she's calm before we try anything." She headed upstairs and met Vanessa. "How is she?"
"She seems better now, but she's a little upset." They stood outside the doorway.
"When you live long enough, everything disappears. So much time wasted, I just wish I wouldn't have been so afraid." Rose was saying to Elena.
"I feel so bad for her." Lea said.
"I didn't know you could feel sympathy for them anymore."
"There's only one I'm opposed to."
"Did it ever occur to you that maybe he feels bad too?" Vanessa asked her. "Why do you think he's trying to find Jules to see if there's a cure?"
"Because it's his fault that she's in this position." Lea said.
"She's also his closest friend right now." Vanessa pointed out.
"Why are you defending him? He's incapable of feeling anything." Lea said, walking away from her. Vanessa sighed and went in to help Elena.
Downstairs, the girls were looking up cures in the spell books. "Maybe this one will work." Terra told them. Suddenly, Vanessa ran into the room.
"What's going on?" Marina asked.
"It happened again." Vanessa said. Suddenly, they heard something crash.
"This is why it was a stupid idea to leave a human alone with her." Lea said.
"Come on!" Terra said. They ran into the library, where Elena was trying to calm Rose down. Suddenly, Rose pushed her to the floor. Elena opened the curtain, causing her to burn.
"Elena! Get over here!" Vanessa grabbed her and they ran for the door, but Rose caught up to them. Terra opened the door with her powers and Lea used a sun spell, burning her temporarily so they could run.
"Will she be okay?" Elena asked as she ran with Terra back to Stefan's room.
"Yeah, Lea's sun stun spell only lasts for about five seconds." Terra explained. Elena blocked the door with furniture. "I think we'll be okay for a while."
"I hope you're right." A few hours later, it was dark out. Elena and Terra left the room together.
"Guys, Rose is…" Lea began. They all gasped when they saw the front door to the house open. Elena turned around and saw Damon.
"Are you okay? Where's Rose?"
"I don't know." She told him.
"What were you thinking, leaving a human alone with a vampire that's been hallucinating?" Lea asked him.
"A, I didn't know it'd get that bad, and B, I thought you four would be smart enough not to leave her by herself."
"Well, bad news. Rose is missing." Marina said. "She took off as soon as it got dark out."
"We'll handle this." Damon told them.
"I'm coming, too." Vanessa said.
"The rest of you try to figure something out. Cause we don't have a lot of options left." Damon said before he left with Elena and Vanessa. Lea watched them go. She couldn't help but wonder if she was wrong about what she said earlier.
The girls headed back into the living room. Lea was still thinking hard. "Lea?" Marina asked. "Are you okay?"
"Do you think he really cares about Rose?" Lea asked.
"Well, I know he's really protective of her." Marina said. "Remember when we went to that coffee shop. When it blew up, the first thing he did was grab her and get her out because she's not a day-walker."
Lea went back to looking in the books. "I hope we're able to help her." Terra and Marina looked at each other. Lea had never focused on studying before.
A few hours later, Rose was asleep in Damon's room again. The other girls were in there. Marina was sitting on a chair next to her. "I'm going to try this." She put her hand on Rose's and focused.
"Wait, I think I read something in there about this…" Vanessa began. Terra looked at her and realized what she was referring too.
"Marina, stop." Terra said. She saw Rose sweating in pain. To her shock, it was getting worse. Marina let go of Rose.
"What's wrong?"
"Normally when you do those spells, it's like replicating the healing process of white blood cells, right?" Terra pointed out. "Well, you're doing this on a very different injury. Instead of healing her, you're making it worse. It's like, causing cancer cells to multiply."
"I didn't realize…I thought…"
"Hey, it isn't your fault Marina." Lea said. "There are other spells that can remove the pain and not the scar, you know."
"We don't have enough time for me to try again." Marina pointed out. "I blew it."
"You guys should probably go. I'll look after her." Damon told them. The girls looked at each other and headed into the hallway. Marina paused for a second, then went with the others.
"Wait, we can't all just leave him like this." Terra realized. "Two of us better stay behind."
"I'll do it." Marina said.
"So will I." Lea said. "I know that we're total opposites, but we need to stick together on this one." Terra and Vanessa left, leaving them in the house. "I'm going back upstairs."
"I'll come with you." Marina said. She started to follow Lea upstairs, but then thought about it, and headed back to the living room.
Lea was in the hall when she heard Rose talking. She listened through the closed door. "Damon's a lot like me. He wants to care but when he does he runs away from it. I'm sorry for what I've done today."
"I know." Elena told her.
"And you need to fight. I know you're scared but you have to do it anyway. Why are you so nice to me?"
"Us humans."
"You can never forget it, what it's like to be human. It haunts me. It's the only thing that keeps me going." Lea headed back downstairs. Suddenly, Elena joined her in the hallway.
"Hey, you okay?"
"Yeah, but I have to leave for a while." Elena told her. "Rose is in pain again."
"We did everything we could to help." Lea said. "I'm just sorry it didn't work out."
"Elena." Marina said, heading out with them.
"We need to give them some time." She pointed out. "Come on, we can head to your place for a while."
About an hour later, Lea and Elena were back at the Boarding House when Damon returned. "You were supposed to leave." He told Elena.
"I did but then I came back to make sure that you're okay." Elena told him.
"I've been here the whole time." Lea said. "Something told me that she'd come back, so I waited here."
"I appreciate the gesture. I'm just glad it's over." Damon told them.
"You know I don't believe that." Elena pointed out.
"Go home, Elena. Get some rest. It's a whole new day tomorrow." Lea looked at them, not sure if she should intervene or not.
"Damon, I'm your friend." Elena told him.
"I'm well aware of that."
"And a friend usually knows when her friend is hurting."
"What do you want to hear? That I cared about Rose? That I'm upset? Well I didn't and I'm not." Lea could tell he was lying. She knew something was off about him.
"There you go, pretending to turn it off, pretending not to feel. Damon, you're so close, don't give up." Elena told him.
"I feel Elena, okay? And it sucks!" Damon said. "What sucks even more is that it was supposed to be me. Jules was coming after me."
"You feel guilty" Elena said. Lea wasn't sure if that was a question or a statement.
"That would be human of me, wouldn't Elena? And I'm not human." Damon pointed out. "You want to talk about giving up? All you've done is give up! Go home. It's been enough doom, gloom and personnel growth for one night." He told her.
"Okay, I will." Elena put her arms around him. Lea just watched them. "Good night, Damon." She left the house, leaving her with him.
"You know, I lost a friend once, too." Lea told him. "It was a few years ago, but I still remember it."
"Why are you still here?" Damon asked her.
"Cause I feel bad that we couldn't help her." Lea said. "And because Marina's really upset that her spell backfired. The last time she got upset because of her powers not working, it took four hours to calm her down."
"I appreciate the concern, but I'm fine."
"No, you're not." Lea said. "I might not have Marina's ability to see clearly or Terra's ability to sense if you're lying, but I do know that you're upset. You can't keep running from it all the time, Damon."
"What's the point? I mean, I know I'm responsible for this whole mess. Sometimes I wish we'd never met Mason." Lea put a hand on his shoulder.
"Hey, would it make you feel better if I told you Rose was happier now?" Lea asked him.
"How can you possibly know that?" Damon asked.
"In addition to having elemental abilities, we also have some psychic powers." Lea said. "And I'm clairvoyant."
"Meaning?"
"I can see certain spirits." Lea told him. "And right now, I can definitely see her. She seems really happy." She touched her pendant under her shirt.
"What is that?"
"It's my pendant." She pulled it out. There was a red stone in the center. "We're the only ones who have them."
"Of course. Your ancestors wore them too."
"They protect us from any kind of dark influence and help us focus our powers." Lea explained.
"You know, you don't have to stay here."
"I stayed here because I wanted to." Lea said. "But if I don't get back soon, the others will start wondering where I am." She started heading toward the door.
"Hang on." She turned around. "Lea, did you really see Rose?" Damon asked her.
"Yes." Lea said. "I wouldn't lie about my abilities, Damon and I know she's important to you." They looked at each other for a while. "I'll see you around." She headed out the door.