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Damon's POV
First thing in the morning, as he and Stefan are placing sheet wood over where the window used to be Elena pulls up. Smiling, she comes inside and greets both him and Stefan which he can tell annoys Stefan to no end. Stefan stops working on the window in order to explain what had happened the night before while he continues to nail it in place.
As he puts the last nail into it, he comments, "I saw we go to Pearl's, bust down the door, and annihilate he ape that attacked us last night."
"Yeah?" Stefan replies, "and then what, we turn to the rest of the house of vampires and say 'oops'. Sorry."
Elena glances between them before commenting, "I can't believe you would make a deal with her."
Walking over to her, he glances down at her face answering, "it was more like a helpful exchange of information. It's not like I had a choice, she's," he pauses, thinking about what the right word for the situation would be, "scary."
For a moment nobody says anything but eventually Elena sighs aggravated. "What has you snarky?" Damon asks as he sits down on the divan, playing with the hammer.
Elena glances at him responding still snarky, "I woke up this morning to learn that there are tomb vampires out, I think I deserve to be snarky." She gives him a scowl, tilting her head to the side.
Stefan looks between the two of them commenting, "This isn't being very productive. We're going to figure out a way to deal with Pearl and the vampires, yeah?"
Damon stands up glancing at Stefan, "I called Victoria to come ward the house. She'll be here later today or tomorrow morning." He doesn't say anything else as he leaves the room. He can hear them discussing it, and tends to agree with Stefan that Elena should stay out of it. They can deal with it accordingly, though he really wished he knew why the tomb had let those particular vampires out.
He hears Elena leave and after a while Damon gets to work on a large clock on the wall, repairing it from the damage done the previous night. Stefan comes walking by wearing his jacket and heading towards the door.
"Hunting party?" he inquires as he continues to work.
Stefan walks right on by him, replying, "that guy did a number on me last night when he stabbed me, I gotta get my strength back up."
For a moment he pauses what he is doing, glancing at Stefan's retreating back, "there is two litters of soccer mom in the fridge," he offers, his tone only mildly sarcastic. When Stefan turns and gives him a look he queries, "No?"
Looking down at the floor, Stefan shoves his hands in his pockets answering, "talk when I get back," before turning and heading towards the door again.
He just goes back to what he is doing, saying, "Alright, give my regards to the squirrels." Almost immediately after Stefan leaves he has the clock done."
A while later he notices how long Stefan has been gone and tries to reach him by phone, when that does not work, he tries Elena who is not picking up her phone for some reason so he heads over to her house. Shortly after calling her for the fifth time with no answer, he knocks on the door. She comes and answers the door, startled to see him.
"Something wrong?" she inquires, they had a closer relationship now than they used to, frowning she grabs her phone and realizes that it was muted, "sorry, my phone was muted, what's wrong?"
He walks into the house, glancing at her, "I was wondering why you were ignoring me, is Stefan here?"
She shakes her head no, and waits for him to answer her earlier question.
Damon glances at his phone then her, answering, "He was out in the woods and didn't come back, I cannot get him on his phone. I thought he was here with you. Maybe you two had gotten back together and not mentioned it after that little date yesterday."
Frowning, she shakes her head no again, dialing Stefan's number. When it goes straight to voice mail she looks at him, her face full of concern. "No we didn't get back together though he did try, but that's odd. Where could he be?"
Damon looks her dead in the face. "You're not going to like what I am thinking," his expression is serious.
He quickly covers what he thinks happened and tells Elena to wait for him to get back. She refuses to stay at the house so she rides with him in the Camaro. He is going to confirm whether he is right or not by going to the farm house. When he gets there, he pounds on the door, and demands entry. It's the vampire who attacked them the previous night who answers the door. For a moment they have a heated discussion before he realizes that he cannot enter the house and Frederick compels the owner of the house that she can never let him in.
Moments later he is back by his car where Elena is waiting fretfully, even though they are no longer dating, they are still friends and she is worried. For a moment Elena wants to try and get in, but Damon stops her. They discuss why they want him, and come up with a plan get him out by going to Alaric. The two of them drive over to the school to speak with him.
When Damon first sees Alaric he sarcastically comments, "Oh don't you look alive," as he smirks knowing he is irritating Alaric, some habits are just hard to break.
Alaric stops where he is at, telling him, "you can't hurt me."
His smirk grows as he takes a step forward, "oh I can hurt you alright."
For a moment the two men approach each other, like two predators getting ready to fight but Elena breaks it up by stepping up behind Damon and saying, "Mr. Saltzman, we need your help."
The three of them head into Alaric's classroom to discuss the situation. After Elena quickly summarizes what's going on she tells him, "Damon's a vampire, we can't get in. We need you. I would go but…"
She doesn't get to finish that sentence because Damon breaks into it, "but your life is valuable." He pauses for a moment to glance at Alaric, "yours on the other hands…"
This time it is Elena who breaks into the sentence, "Stefan told me about your ring."
Alaric sits at his desk looking straight at Elena and trying not to look at Damon, "what about it?"
"Let me recap," he comments from his seat in the window, his tone full of sarcasm. "You tried to kill me, I defend myself, you died, and according to my brother your ring brought you back to life." He pauses for a second to wrinkle his nose, inquiring "Am I leaving anything out?"
Alaric stands up, answering, "Yeah the part where I try to kill you again only this time I don't miss."
Elena steps in front of him pleading, "Mr. Saltzman, please it's Stefan."
He stares at her for a moment before shaking his head and saying, "I'm sorry Elena, it's not my problem."
From his spot in the window Damon pipes up with, "It's a shame, because the woman in charge of the crowd could find your wife," he's lying because he has no clue if Pearl could or not and does not plan on asking.
"You're lying," Alaric accuses him looking directly at him as he stands up and walks towards them. Elena has turned to face him as well.
As he stops next to Elena he replies, "Am I?" he pauses for a moment, "why don't you ask her for yourself? Coward. Come on Elena," she glances at him, and the two of them turn and walk towards the door while Alaric plays with his ring.
They are just about out it when Alaric gives in, "Alright, I'll go."
Both Elena and Damon turn to face him, he is standing there was a lost and mournful expression on his face. Damon keeps his expression neutral but inside he is smirking up a storm. He had played a bluff and Alaric had not called it. How predictable, of course he would have to explain to Elena why he did it later, but that would be after his idiot brother was home.
Once he has agreed to help them, he digs out his kit and they discuss the plan. It involves Alaric getting into the house and getting the woman to let him in, and then Damon will sneak in, retrieve Stefan and sneak out. Elena wants to help but Damon does not want her near the house for her protection, Alaric is staying out of it for the most part. Eventually he agrees to let her drive the car but he does not want her near the house since she is not immortal, not trained, and not able to get in and out without being heard. Eventually Alaric comments that if they are going to go, they should get going.
The three of them head to the house, where Alaric tricks them into letting him in. As soon as one of the vampires shows him the phone, it goes to attack him and he stakes him. Mrs. Gibbons who is standing there is shocked and doesn't know how to respond. Alaric opens the back door, showing her Damon but she will not let him in because of the compulsion, Damon has him shove her out the door and inquires whether she has anyone in the world. When she replies there is no one, she snaps her neck in a single motion. She's dead before she can even take a breath.
Horrified, Alaric stares at him as he steps into the house, grabbing his arm Alaric growls at him quietly, "you were supposed to compel her!"
Damon looks up at him, whispering back harshly, "it doesn't work that way." His ears are listening to the sounds of the other vampires.
"She's human!"
He glares at Alaric, snarling, "And I'm not. So I don't care. Now get out of here. Get rid of the body."
Alaric takes off out the door, while Damon softly shuts the door. A few moments later another vampire enters the room and he surprises him, killing him as well. As he quickly searches the house he finds the inside entrance to the basement and goes down it, just as he gets to the bottom, the vampire there notices something and he kills him just in time to save Elena.
"Are you insane?" he demands.
Seconds later they find Stefan, hanging from the ceiling with another vampire in the room. Damon glances at her and asks if she can get him to the car. She replies that she can and Damon goes to distract the remaining vampires while Elena and Stefan escape. For a few minutes there is fighting between Damon and Frederick until a couple of other vampires interferes, just as one of them goes to kill him, the vampire falls over dead, Alaric had shot him. He tells Alaric that he is going after Frederick.
He searches the house and doesn't find Frederick so he tells Alaric it's time for them to go but when they go to leave there is several more vampires approaching the house.
"So what you said to get me to do this about my wife, it was a lie wasn't it?" Alaric demands as he watches the door.
"Yep," he replies.
Before Alaric can say anything else they can hear Pearl demanding to know what's going on. He confronts her about the fact that her vampires attacked, kidnapped, and tortured his brother. So they came and got him out, Pearl apologizes to him and the two men leave. By the time they get back to the car Stefan is back on his feet, Frederick is dead on the ground, and Elena seems to be in shock.
When they get back to the town, Elena and Stefan go to her house, Alaric goes to the school for a bit before going to the Grill and Damon meets him there.
"That was fun," he comments as he sits down next to Alaric at the bar. Alaric gives him a nasty look snorting, and he continues, "Oh don't look at me like that, I know you hate me, guess what almost everyone hates me." He tells him in a stage whisper, he pauses for a moment before going on, "but you can't deny, we were bad ass."
Alaric just hums in the back of his throat before standing up and slugging him in the jaw with a nasty right hook.
He stretches his jaw for a moment and mutters, "it happens" as Alaric walks out of the bar and he downs his drink.