Part 2

Mystic Grill

Jules is still at her table eating some food with Stefan still watching her. Stefan picks up his phone and reads the text from Alaric that is Isobel's number. He taps the number and calls Isobel but there's no answer so he leaves a message

"Isobel, it's Stefan Salvatore. I need to speak with you, it's about Elena. Please know that it's important." Stefan says into the phone. He hangs the phone up and looks toward to door to see Damon and Aalleeyah storm in. He sees them about to walk up to Jules so he quickly rushes over and stops them

" What are you doing here?" Damon asks

" I'm waiting for you. How did Aalleeyah get out?" Stefan asks, completely ignoring Aalleeyah's presence

"We thought of plan. Got her out, keep the bitch in" Damon shrugged

"Listen, there's a lot of people here." Stefan warns

" Oh, damn. There goes my plan to rip her spleen through her back."

" Hey, listen, I know you're upset about Rose."

" Why does everyone think that I'm upset about Rose? I'm fine. I don't know if you know this but sometimes, vampires die. I'm gonna have a friendly chat with lady wolf, brother. Ease up." Damon replies and he and Aalleeyah walk over to Jules. Stefan's phone rings and he sees it's the number that Alaric sent him and he answers and leaves the Grill. Meanwhile, Damon sits at Jules table while Aalleeyah stands behind her so she can't leave

"Well, if it isn't the one I meant to kill… I'll have to get that right next time." Jules sneers and looks behind her to see Aalleeyah

"And you… you're Aalleeyah right, the hybrid?" Jules double checks

"Sure am." Aalleeyah fakely smiles

" You won't live to see another full moon unless… unless you tell me how to cure a wolf bite and then I won't kill you." Damon threatens

" Promise?" Jules asks

" Yes." Damon decides after a short pause. Jules pulls out some money from her wallet and places it on the table before looking back to Damon

" Bite me." Jules says and gets up but Aalleeyah grabs her arm before she gets too far

" I'm not afraid of you." Jules bravely informs

" Then you are very, very stupid." Aalleeyah growls

" How's your friend? Rose, is that her name? Have the chills started? The unbearable pain?" Jules taunts

" If there's a cure, tell me or start watching your back." Damon snarls

" Did I mention the dementia? It'll eat away at her brain. Soon she'll be rabid. You want a cure? I'll tell you the only cure that exists: take a stake and drive it through her heart." Jules finishes and leaves the Grill. Damon grabs Aalleeyah's hand and pulls her to the bar to drink away their problems… or at least attempt to.

Salvatore's house

Elena walks back into Damon's bedroom, in her hands are clean sheets so Rose doesn't have to stay in the sheets covered in her throw up blood.

" I brought some clean sheets." Elena informs but it falls on deaf ears because Rose is no longer there. Elena, confused, walks out of the room and looks around the house to see where she is. She goes into the library and decides it's time to call Damon

" It's Elena, I'm worried about Rose. I think you should come home." Elena talks into the phone but puts the phone down when she hears a noise. Suspicious, she walks towards the source of the sound.

" Rose?" Elena calls out. She carefully and cautiously walks down the stairs that lead to the basement. She enters the basement and picks up an empty blood bag that was on the floor. She walks further into the basement and is completely shocked and terrified to find Rose. Rose's mouth is covered in blood and she's chugging back a blood bag and around her are a lot of empty ones.

" Oh my god." Elena comments

" Katerina" Rose hisses

" No" Elena says petrified and Rose starts to go after her so Elena quickly runs.

" Rose, stop, stop, it's Elena. I'm not Katherine." Elena yells and Rose stops.

" You're hallucinating. I'm not Katherine. I'm not Katherine." Elena breathes, frightened and for a second, Rose's vamp face went away and she looked like she understood what Elena was talking about. But that didn't last long, Rose's vamp face returns and she tackles Elena to the floor. As a last resort, Elena grabs a nearby curtain and pulls it down. Rose screams from the burning of her skin caused by the sun and moves off of Elena and hides in the darkness. Elena takes this opportunity to run. She races to the door but just as she opens it, Rose attacks her from behind and tries to bite her neck. Elena digs her fingers into Rose's werewolf bite wound and Rose drops to the floor, screaming from pain. Elena runs away once again and this time sprints into Stefan's room. She locks the door but knows that would be enough so she places a set of drawers in front of the door for extra assurance. She looks around the room and decides to open the curtains and the balcony door. She breaks off a leg of a wooden chair and holds it up, ready to attack. Rose is on the other side, trying to open the door.

" Elena? I know that's you and not Katherine. Elena, please, I need your help." Rose coughs out but Elena doesn't buy it and keeps the door locked and shut.

Hours later, Elena is still in Stefan's room, sitting down. She hasn't heard any noise from outside in a few minutes so she takes a chance and leaves the room, stake in hand. She carefully walks downstairs and sees the front door wide open. She turns around and jumps seeing Damon and Aalleeyah standing there.

"Are you okay? Where's Rose?" Damon asks

" I don't know." Elena shivers

Mystic Falls' high school

In the parking lot, a stumbling and hungry Rose has just arrived. She bends over, almost throwing up again when a man comes to throw the garbage in a nearby dumpster. He turns around and sees her gagging.

" Excuse me, are you okay?" He asks moving closer to the dying vampire. She turns her head to the innocent man and bites his neck, draining him. She lets go eventually and he falls to the floor, dead

Not too long after, Damon and Aalleeyah arrive at the same parking lot and approach the sheriff who's police force has just found the body of the man Rose killed.

" Hey." Damon greets

" Thanks for coming so quickly." Sheriff Forbes sighs thankfully

" No, we were close by Liz, what happened?" Aalleeyah asks

" A vampire. Luckily one of my deputies discovered the body before anyone else saw him."

" We have to secure the area then." Damon informs

"Don't cause a panic, but let's take this party into the cafeteria." Liz tells her deputies

"I take the east side of the school, you go west?" Liz asks the other two

" Sure, okay." Damon agrees and he entangles his fingers with Aalleeyah's and goes off in the opposite direction to Liz like planned. Elena, who's at the parking lot too, calls Stefan but he doesn't pick up so she leaves a message for him

" Hey, Stefan, it's me. I don't know where you are but please call me. It's important." Elena stresses and hangs up as Damon and Aalleeyah join her.

" Hey. Have you heard from him? Do you know what he's up to?"

" My baby brother is not exactly my priority right now. Take this" Damon instructs and passes her a stake

" Come on, let's go." Aalleeyah says and the three all leave

Two students are headed to their car that's in the parking lot at the school

" Hey, what was going on back there with the police?" The boy asks the girl

" Some maintenance man had a heart attack. He just dropped dead." The girl explains as she gets in the car and waits for her boyfriend to enter the driver's seat but gets confused when after a few moments he still isn't there.

" Eddie?" The girl calls. 'Eddie's' body falls onto the windscreen of the car, smashing it and causing the girl to scream from pure terror. She races out of the car and tries to run but Rose is waiting for her and immediately bites into her neck when Damon and Aalleeyah arrive

" Rose, stop!" Damon yells. Rose drops the girl and vamp speeds towards the two but Aalleeyah grabs her and pins her to the floor as she struggles

" Rose, Rose! It's me, it's Aalleeyah. It's Damon and Aalleeyah." Aalleeyah soothes. Rose's face becomes normal again and she looks at the girl's body who she just bit into.

" Did I do this? I never meant to hurt anyone. I never wanted to hurt anyone." Rose cries

" I know." Aalleeyah replies softly. Rose turns her head to Elena who's standing nearby

" I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." Rose apologizes

" Come on, let's get you home." Aalleeyah says

" No, I don't have a home, I haven't had a home in so long." Rose sobs uncontrollably

" Oh make it stop, please make it stop! I hate it, make it stop!" Rose begs and Aalleeyah moves off of her. Damon bends down and picks her up bridal style and they all head back to the Salvatore house.

Salvatore's house

A very weak and sweaty Rose is in Damon's bed with Damon by the bed.

" Hi there." Damon greets as Rose awakens

" I'm sorry." Rose whispers feebly

" You went on a murderous rampage. It happens." Damon tries to cheer her up. Elena and Aalleeyah enter the room. Aalleeyah walks over to Damon and hugs him from behind, knowing he needs it because even though he won't admit it, he's sad that Rose is dying. Damon turns around and holds her in his arms as he places a kiss to her head.

" I'm sorry, Elena. I don't like taking human life, I never have." Rose says

" You shouldn't be here." Damon tells Elena

" It's the worst part about it: the hunt, the need to kill, the thirst, the pleasure it brings you afterwards. I wasn't meant to be evil. It hurts." Rose explains

" Stop talking about it." Aalleeyah snaps slightly at the girl

" They're both a lot like me. They want to care but when they do they run away from it. I'm sorry for what I've done today."

" I know." Elena sighs moving closer to her

" And you need to fight. I know that you're scared but you have to do it anyway." Rose says but starts coughing. Elena quickly moves closer to her and puts an arm under her neck

" Why are you so nice to me?" Rose asks Elena

" Us humans."

" You can never forget it, what it's like to be human. It haunts me. It's the only thing that's kept me going. It doesn't hurt as much anymore." Rose says but she abruptly starts to scream in pain

"What do we do?" Elena asks frantically

" Go." Damon commands as he hops in the bed with Rose and holds her

" Damon…" Elena starts

" Just go, I got this." Damon demands as Elena leaves and Rose continues to scream in pain.

" Oh god! Make it stop, make it stop! I can't take it anymore, make it stop!" Rose screams

"Is there anything you can do?" Damon asks his girlfriend

"Um, I can try but it might not work" Aalleeyah suggests and walks to Rose. She takes Rose's hand and starts mumbling a spell. Rose's screaming dies down and her eyes start to close and she falls asleep

"It won't hold her down for long but at least it's something." Aalleeyah shrugs and Damon nods.

"I'll leave you guys" Aalleeyah politely smiles and goes to leave the room.

"Leeyah" Damon softly calls out before she leaves the room and Aalleeyah turns back to face him

"I love you" Damon mouths to her and she smiles cutely

"I love you too" She mouths back before leaving

Rose wakes up about half an hour later and is now cuddling into Damon's chest while he's holding her hand

"Who would have thought you'd be a nice guy?" Rose mumbles

" I'm not nice. I'm mean. I like it" Damon replies

" You're lying."

" Shhh, just sleep. Just sleep." Damon soothes and Rose closes her eyes, falling asleep

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