After picking up Stefan to help in the search for Elena the brothers are now confronting Aaron.
Damon: "Pop quiz." Says startling Aaron, "So your girlfriend's taken by a mad scientist. Now, do you: A, get a new girlfriend; B, call the police; or C, kill someone close to the mad scientist?"
Aaron tries to run but is stopped
Stefan: "Sit."
Aaron: "Look, I have no idea where Wes took her."
Stefan: "Well, they're not at his lab, so where else could he hide a vampire?"
Aaron: "I'm sorry. Am I supposed to know who you are?"
Damon: "That's my brother Stefan, but I'd watch your tone with him because he's kind of in the midst of a psychotic break."
Stefan: "I'm sorry. I'm what?"
Damon: "Oh, come on. You don't think I know about you and Katherine?"
Stefan: "Oh, I see. You're jealous."
Damon: "See? He's off his rocker, he's losing his mind, teetering on the brink of insanity."
Aaron: "How are you not dead? I shot you."
Damon: "Well, because you went for the head. You got to go for the heart. Go for the heart next time. Now, where's Elena?"
Aaron: "I have no idea. All that Wes told me was to go about my life as usual."
Damon: "We're gonna call Wes, and you're gonna tell him that if he doesn't give us Elena the next experiment that he conducts it's gonna be sewing your arms back on."
on the phone
Wes/Dr. Maxfield: "Aaron, hey."
Aaron: "Do you have Elena?"
Wes/Dr. Maxfield: "Aaron, what's wrong?"
Aaron: "Uh, Stefan and Damon Salvatore are gonna kill me unless you give them Elena."
Wes/Dr. Maxfield: "Damon Salvatore is locked in an impenetrable and inescapable fortified cell."
Aaron: "Or he's in front of me imagining what my kidney would taste like."
Wes/Dr. Maxfield: "Fine. Meet you in my classroom. Once I see you're safe, tell them I'll give them Elena."
Grayson Gilberst Old Offices
After hanging up Wes walks down to the basement where Enzo is strapped to a gurney. He removes the IV from him that was feeding his body Vervain.
Wes/Dr. Maxfield: "Enzo...Enzo, wake up." He says while getting a syringe ready. "When was the last time you were out in civilization?" He then injects Enzo.
Enzo: "What's that?" Enzo asks weakly.
Wes/Dr. Maxfield: "An insurance policy. Guarantees you'll come back to me. I'm giving you the day off." He pulls out a few blood bags showing them to Enzo, "You and Damon have some catching up to do."
A Smirk makes its way across Enzo's face.
Enzo POV:
So this is the 21st century... so far I am not impressed but won't ever knock the chance to get some fresh air. The thought of confronting Damon almost make the last 55 years worth it. I make my way over to classroom Wes' little relative will be arriving in with Damon and prop myself up on one of the chairs towards the back. Yes I think this room will do quite nicely for a makeshift arena.
I hear footsteps coming closer
Damon: "Which one is it?"
Aaron: "It's right here."
and showtime, 3 people walk in, granted I only know one but I was never one for stage fright.
Enzo: "21051." I say as a form of greeting.
Damon: "Enzo?" Damon asks looking quite befuddled
Enzo: "Its been awhile mate." I start making my way towards Damon and the spectators thoroughly enjoy how uncomfortable Damon looks until I'm interrupted.
Stefan: Who the hell are you?
Enzo: "Lorenzo, but my friends call me Enzo. Ah. Kidding. I don't have any friends." I offer my hand but the one with the hair makes no move essentially spoiling my fun... party pooper.
Damon: "Enzo's another Augustine vampire. Our cells were next to each other." Really thats how he introduces me, surely I have to have a bit more in my headline. "So we're here to meet somebody -Wes Maxfield. You know him?" Ah and now you want something from well thats not how this is going to work.
Enzo: "That's your first question for me? Not "How are you? How'd you survive in that fire I left you to die in?" Honestly some people have no manners.
Aaron: "Uh, does somebody want to tell me what the hell is going on here?" The little one pipes up, ah finally someone with a little courtesy.
Enzo: "I'd love to. Have a seat. Been waiting seventy years to tell my story." I get comfortable on the teacher's desk and motion for them to have a seat might as well take a load off this will definitely take awhile. But of corse hairdo has to go and ruin my fun yet again!
Really he's left to make a phone call?!
Stefan: "Where's Elena?"
Wes/Dr. Maxfield: "Who's this?" Thats who he's called? Really I think the amount of hair on his head has started to encroach where brain matter should reside.
Stefan: "We have Aaron, and we're trying to decide how to kill him." Yes he has your girl strapped down and vulnerable threaten him, brilliant idea. Who the hell even is this idiot?
Wes/Dr. Maxfield: "Funny. I have Elena, and I'm wondering how she'll function without her cerebral cortex. Touch him, and you'll never see her again."
Stefan: "That threat works both ways." ah and he hangs up on him well done Stefan very dramatic. Well i'm not waiting anymore on with the show.
Enzo: "Damon and I had been locked in those cells for years, tortured, beaten, humiliated, but we weren't gonna let them break us, no. We decided if were going to escape, we needed to work together. We needed each other."
Stefan enters the classroom again.
Stefan: "He's not sending her." Stefan ignores me speaking only to Damon, you know for only conversing with sadistic Mangala type monsters for decades yet I am finding the people on the outside severely lacking.
Enzo: "Tragic. Can I continue my story now, please?"
Damon: "Doesn't he know we have Aaron?" Damon replies to Stefan in turn also ignoring me and now I can feel my inner monster starting to come out, this is not what I have waited 55 bloody years for!
Stefan: "He doesn't care. He's willing to risk it."
Aaron: "What? Let me to talk to him! He'll listen to me." And here I thought I could count on the little one. Well that it for me I hop off the desk.
Damon: "What part of 'he doesn't care' are you not registering?"
I rip out a row of seats and send them crashing across the room. Ah that seems to have gotten their attention.
Enzo: "Where were we? Uh, ah, right. I was telling my story, and you were all politely listening. Huh?"
I walk back up to my "stage" before continuing.
"So I'd given Damon all of my blood ration so he'd have the strength to escape and save me in the process. Our plan began perfectly, didn't it? I was waiting in the cage for him to release me, waiting for my friend, my cellmate, the only soul with whom I'd connected with in all those years after I lost Henrietta... after she was taken from me!"
Just going over all this again I can almost feel the flames angrily lapping at my terrified body trapped inside that cage.
Enzo: "Then a fire starts, burns out of control, but Damon just can't get the damn cage open. He looks me in the eye as if he doesn't even recognize me, turns around, saves himself, leaving me to die."
Stefan: "Well, you didn't die, obviously." Wow this blokes sensitivity is touching.
Enzo: "No. Unfortunately I lived. I was spared by one of the scientists so I could spend another fifty years on a table being opened and closed by another. Unable to search for my long lost love Henrietta Salvatore. You are running around after some girl do you know how long I've been waiting to save my girl! Well, now that we've all been acquainted, I'm gonna find something to wet my whistle." I leave now desperate for some decent alcohol.
3RD PERSON
Stefan: "What is he talking about Damon? How does he know Henrietta's name? Why did you never tell me about him, about any of this?"
Damon: "Right so long story short- big sis is a vampire who was also tortured by Agustine where she met and fell in love with Enzo before being sold off to help line their pockets and further fund their experiments... so do you want to kill Aaron, or should I?"
This stuns Stefan he always thought his sister lived her human life and died he never once suspected she might have been turned. A million thoughts and feelings were racing through him now. Hope of seeing her again, anger at being kept in the dark, abandonment for her never seeking him out- it all kept wrestling inside him. Suddenly Damon's calm demeanor sets him off.
Stefan: "This guy was your cellmate for five years, you left him to die, you knew our sister was alive and never told me! how are you completely unfazed?" Choosing to ignore his brother's outburst he turns to Aaron.
Damon: "Fine. I will."
Aaron: " Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Wes gave me a bunch of files on my family history. They're in my dorm, okay? Maybe there's something in there you need, a name, I mean, another lab."
Damon: "That's a timely revelation."
Stefan: "Where is she now Damon? Damon? Damon I swear if you know where she is..."
Damon: "Calm down Stefan let focus on saving Elena and then maybe we can circle back to this okay?" Damon turns around and starts to come at Aaron, "I don't like you, I don't like your family, I don't like you messing up my relationship. If you're lying, I'm gonna take my thumbs, and I'm gonna gouge out your sad little eyes out of your sad little head!"
Enzo POV:
Well now seems as good a time as any to make my entrance.
Enzo: "Ah. It's frightening what you can find on campus these days." I say Bourbon in hand re-entering this little arena.
Stefan: "Knock yourself out. We're going with plan B." I really want to punch this bloke in the face for some reason, but more important things to do and all.
Enzo: "Damon's not. Damon's staying right here. He knows all my secrets, so he knows how ornery I can get when I don't get my way."
The other two make their way out and now its time for the real show.
