"Yes, but first, would you let Damon?' "Of course!" He smiled at me and then it faltered. "But how?" "Here, I'll show you!" I smiled at him encouragingly and held out my hand. He took it quickly. "Damon be gentle and don't kill him,ok?" I sent telepathically. "Ok Lan." He sounded weak.
"Dan just roll up your sleeve a bit." I said it in a tone of sympathy. I knew it was going to hurt him and he didn't. He obliged willingly. I pulled his wrist across Damon's mouth and watched the look of pain cross his face when Damon bit. He never cried out or tried to pull back, he just stood there staring at me. After about a minute Damon let him go, he staggered back a few steps and collapsed into a chair. He fell asleep almost instantly. "I compelled him to sleep." Damon murmured. His face had a little more colour to it but he was obviously still in pain. I turned and looked at the other boys who were just walking around talking to each other. "Justin?" One of them snapped their heads towards me.
"Yes Lani?" He smiled.
"Would you mind?" I asked, they all had a choice but I knew they would all say yes anyway.
"Of course Lani!" He walked over and placed his hand over Damons mouth the same way Dan had. And again after a minute or so Damon dropped the boys arm. Damon sat up quietly but I could see it took alot of effort. I decided to give him a little of my blood. I bit my wrist and pushed it towards his mouth. He tried to push it away but I was much stronger. It felt nice being able to help Damon in some way. I tried to pull some of his pain into me but he pushed my attempts to the side. "No Lani you can't! I won't let you!" His mental voice had much more life in it.
"Won't let me what? Help?" I was trying so hard to weasel my way into his mind and steal some of his pain away, but he put a steel box around himself. He let go of my wrist and pulled me into his chest. "I don't want you to hurt this way Lani. Its terrible, but I would rather go through this a thousand times, than let you feel this pain." I could feel the tears trying to evade my eyes, but I would not let them. Not while all these people were here. I quickly gathered all their minds. "There is alcohol in the lounge room and a stereo, go and use them as you wish. If Stefan asks you what's going just tell him I said it was OK. But when you hear me call for you come at once. Understand?" They all nodded and disappeared out the door. Even Dan woke up and left. I got up and closed the door. I stayed with my back facing Damon. How could I look in his eyes and feel his warm arms around me and be happy, when all the while he is in gut wrenching pain and at any second could be stolen away from me forever? How could any person do this? "Because it makes me happy." Damon said, winding his arms around me. I must of been projecting to him. I turned to look into his eyes and felt the tears I had been fighting with finally spill over.
"Lani it will be ok you know!" Damon said some time later. We were lying on his bed together quietly. I couldn't answer him. I knew he was lying to make me feel better, but it gave me no comfort. I was hungry and I didn't ever want to have this conversationn with him, it was too hard to even think about it, so I called out telepathically to the boys downstairs. They had been laughing and joking around like most drunk guys do. They automatically came upstairs and into the bedroom one after the other untill they were standing around the bed Damon and I were on. "Dan and Justin you go have another drink, the others will be down shortly." They nodded and left. I couldn't be bothered calling them by their names so I stood up and walked over too one of them. He stood perfectly still, even when I bit into his neck, he stayed in the same spot. I kept drinking until I felt him start to wobble under me. I compelled him to go downstairs and have a sleep on the couch. I was full after the one feed so I pulled one of the other guys back to Damon, who was laying like a god on the bed. I couldn't help but laugh at him. He gave me his usual wicked smile. He started to drink straight away, he seemed to be always thirsty at the moment. He fed off the remaining boys and then I sent them home, giving Dan a quick kiss when he left. As far as they could remember they had gotten drunk at the Grill and driven themselves home. I climbed the stairs back up to Damon slowly, thinking before taking each step. I wanted with all my heart to save him, but I didn't want him to deal with any more pain then he was now and as he'd already pointed out losing me would be unbareable. I got to the top step and took off down them again when I heard a faint knock on the door. I wonder who it could be, Elena was already here with Stefan? I was still pondering while I pulled open the door and gasped. "Klaus!"
"You're right to be afriad of me young one, but on this occasion it is not necessary." He smiled.
"What do you mean?" Everything he said contradicted itself. "I have come to help the eldest Salvatore boy! The one you are so caught up in."
"You can't save him! Only I can!" "Aaaah, so you found out about your parents. Sorry about that, but it was necessary." I shrugged, I had gotten over it pretty quickly so there was no need to make a big deal out of it, plus I wanted to know more about Damon. "How can you help Damon?" I eyed him carefully to see any trace of a lie.
"Well as dear Elena has probably told you I am a hybrid. Meaning I am part werewolf and part vampire." Elena had mentioned something about him using her in his creepy spell ritual thing, crazy dude.
"Yeah what of it?" I asked. Why couldn't he just spit it out?
"Well my blood cures a bite. Now let me in please?" He walked in without letting me answer. Since Zach was dead he didnt need to be invited in.
"Why? Why do you want to help?" He paused on the stairs and turned to look at me.
"Because of you sweet Lani. If you were to die saving him, as I have no doubt you would do, then you would not be able to fulfill your purpose in life." He turned back again and started up the stairs. My purpose in life, what was that suppose to mean? Why was he always so vague in his answers. "Klaus wait! What purpose in life?" "Aaah so I see Damon forgot to mention one part of your life story." He smiled at me. What was going on?
"What do you mean?" "Well with your life and death super power thing comes real power. As you have already found out you can project your thoughts to other vampires and when you are in distress all of your thoughts are projected. But there are many other powers you are yet to uncover. As in you can kill anything if you get angry enough at it, but you can also bring it back to life. But as for your purpose in life, you are yet to recieve that power, and when it comes I am sure you will understand. This is why that man tried to kill you earlier this year, and had Damon not saved you I would have had a lot of killing to do to make up for your death." He smiled again and went on up to Damon. I was left standing there dumbfounded. I was to recieve powers? What does that mean? I heard Damon yelling at Klaus to get away from him but it was cut off half way through with a gurgle. I raced up the stairs to see what was wrong to find no one in the room apart from Damon. "Where did Klaus go?" Damon shrugged. Wait! There was blood around his mouth but he did not look to be in pain. I raced over to him. "Damon are you...?" "Better? Yes!" He stood up and walked around. "Oh my god Lani, I'm better!" He ran over to me and hugged me tight. I started crying with joy. He spun me around in circles. "Lani I'm ok!" "I know, it's amazing!" I yelled at the top of my lungs. Tears were streaming down my face and I was laughing and spinning around with him. Nothing could take away the joy I felt at the moment. I was beyond estatic, I was amazed and excited! I could see through his eyes Damon felt exactly the same way. Stefan and Elena burst through the door to sight they never thought they would see. "What's going on?" Stefan asked he was bewildered by what he was seeing and Elena looked no different.
"I'm ok Stefan!" Damon yelled, spinning me around again. "What do you mean ok?" Elena asked.
"He was saved! He isn't going to die!" I exclaimed. I kissed Damon. Just a quck peck but my emotions all flooded through to him in that tiny instant. "I love you Lani!" He smiled at me.
"I love you too Damon, more than you could ever know!" He hugged me tight and turned to look at the Stefan and Elena who were still standing by the door.
"What, no hug?" He asked with a smile. Elena ran into his arms and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek. Stefan was slower to come forward almost as if he didn't believe Damon really had been cured. When he fnally made it to Damon they a very manly like hug but held it for longer than most would. "I say we celebrate!" Damon said.
"What do you have in mind?" I asked. I felt like I would go anywhere with him right now, just to see him smiling and walking around was enough to satisfy me for years.
"How about the Grill?" He said cocking his head to the side. "We could invite Caroline and Bonnie?" I offered with a shrug.
"Sounds like a good idea!" Elena said. "Me and Stefan will go to my house and get changed and I'll call Bonnie and Caroline on the way. How about we meet at the grill at about 9:30?" Wow! It hadn't been very long since I was at the Grill before, I could of sworn it was at least midnight. "Sounds good!" Damon said with a smile, "We'll see you then." With that Stefan and Elena left. Stefan turned around every five or so seconds to make sure his brother was still standing there.