Damon POV
Elena's scream pained my ears and my heart. As the bloody body jumped from the window at Elena's feet, everything happened too fast.
"Dana!" Elena screamed, before she was pulled back from her neck.
"Invite her in!" A familiar voice roared. Stefan.
I blurred to Stefan to grab Elena from him, but in a second a whole Vervain tranquilizer was injected in my back, making me fall to the floor, useless.
"No!" Elena screamed as Stefan-never loosening his grip on Elena-staked me in my chest.
I twisted in agony, but all I could think about was Elena.
Elena POV
I struggled in Stefan's grip.
"I said, invite her in!" He roared, as he turned me around forcefully to face the door.
Rebecca?
"No!"
"I killed Dana, do you want me to kill every person you've ever met?"
"Stefan, this isn't you!" I breathed, trying to escape from his grip.
"Let her go!" Damon roared, trying to get up.
"Not until you invite Bex in," he challenged. "So, what's it going to be, Elena?"
"No, please…"
"What the hell's going on here?" Another voice asked, confused.
"NO!" I roared as Rebecca sung her teeth in the man's neck, but not before a Vervain bomb exploded in Rebecca's face. She blurred away, her face burning, while the other Vervain tranquilizer shot at Stefan.
I immediately took the nearest stake and staked Stefan, before turning to Damon and helping him up. I immediately cut my hand with the nearest knife and gave Damon my blood.
"Oh God, Rick!" Damon said as he rushed to help his friend.
"Alaric!" I screamed as I went next to my teacher-father and shook him, how could Rebecca do this?
Damon took Alaric to the parlor and checked for his pulse. By the look on his face, he was clearly dying. Damon bit into his wrist and gave Alaric his blood, while saying, "Come on, Ricky buddy. Wake up!"
There was silence in the room, all I could hear was my uneven breathing. Alaric coughed and began to stir, before throwing up blood all over the couch, taking heavy breaths.
"Oh, thank God," Damon let his breath out.
"Why did you have to turn back?" I cried as I reached out and hugged Alaric, and he returned the hug, kissing my temple. "I'm okay," he said as my tears fell on his shirt. "I came because I forgot my phone, but then I saw what was happening…"
Damon was left speechless, but patted Alaric's shoulder. "Thought we lost you back there, buddy."
"Thank you for giving me your blood," Alaric said as he got to his feet. "I don't have the ring."
"Stay here," Damon said. "At least for the next twenty four hours. You know what happens if you die. There are six other bedrooms, you can have one."
"Yes, good idea. Thanks,"
"Elena, could you bring him something to drink?"
"Yeah, sure," I replied, still taking in everything that happened. I returned with a glass of water and as I handed it to him, I turned to Damon.
"What are we going to do with Stefan? He's knocked out…"
"I'm taking him to the basement. I'll feed him animal blood, it's the best solution at the moment."
He carried his brother, still unconscious, to the basement and locked him there, and then gave me a stern look.
"Don't make me bring Bonnie here to lock you upstairs, don't ever think to come down here by yourself."
"I'm not stupid, Damon."
He nodded his head.
"Why do you think Rebecca wanted to be invited in so badly?" I asked.
"No clue," He said, now turning to his scotch.
"I just can't understand why she would want to enter this much… and why Stefan's like this. A moment he's like wanting to help us, like what Katherine said, and a moment he's gripping me from my neck and hurting everyone I love. Dana had been in my school as long as I could remember, Damon. And a few minutes ago, her body was at my feet. No one is safe anymore."
"That's what a ripper does, Elena," Damon explained. "Killing. But deep down, Stefan's heart is pure. He is put into a decision, in the middle. Half of him is screaming to rip everyone apart, but the other half is still screaming to help us, he loves you, but with all this he's forgetting who he is and what he wants to be. He's stuck in the middle so he is sometimes stable and sometimes not. But eventually, he'll have to choose a side."
"But it's what the blood makes him!"
"Blood, blood… Stefan can control it if he wants to. But it isn't easy, because he spent a hundred years fighting it instead of controlling it. He spent all that time faking, changing personalities."
"But you changed, and you don't act like him…"
"Self control. Having something worth changing for," He gulped as he looked into my eyes, I knew that he was talking about me.
He moved closer and caressed my cheekbone with his thumb.
"We'll take care of this," He whispered into my ear. "Trust me."
Katherine POV
I felt alone and unsecure. I always thought that this was all I needed, my freedom. But I couldn't live my undead life in peace knowing that I had-once again-escaped from Klaus, my worst nightmare. As much as I hated to do this, I had to turn to them, help Elena and Damon. We had to work together-for real this time.
Sure I wasn't going to bond with Elena or invite her for a ladies' night out, but at least I could work with them. I changed my direction to the Salvatore's boarding house.
Damon's POV
"We need Bonnie here to do the spell," I said. "I'm going to call her. We can't wait till tomorrow."
In less than twenty minutes, Bonnie was in the house murmuring a spell that made the house belong to me again. Elena signed the deed while I waited outside, Stefan's body next to me.
She invited us both in and I put Stefan in the basement again, now awake but weakened.
"What the hell happened?" He asked quietly, eyeing the room. "Where am I?"
"You're in the basement of our house," I answered.
"Where's Elena? I want to see her."
"Oh, no you won't see her," I replied firmly. "I'm not letting you near her."
"Well, you don't command me," He said as he stood up to attack me, but his legs gave out.
"Apparently I can, and no, you're not going to see her."
He groaned. "When can I see her?"
"When you stop fantasizing about what she tastes like these days."
"You know I wouldn't do that…" He groaned weakly.
"You did hurt her."
"When? I don't remember…"
"See? You were too lost in the scent of blood to realize it was her you were biting when Klaus kidnapped her."
"You finally got what you wanted, then. Why don't you just admit it? You won't let me see her because you're afraid that she'll fall for me again. I don't want to imagine what you two did when I was gone. I bet you even slept with her."
My eyes widened at Stefan's tone, full of hate and anger.
"You don't have to talk," He said when I didn't reply. "That's pure you, Damon. Taking my girlfriends. I wonder if Elena ever ends up as one of the girls we played with in the… what, 1960s? I had a 'girlfriend' back then and you took her away from me then threw her away like garbage. I wonder if that's what you'll do to Elena…"
This was way too much for me to bear. I took the stake in my hand again and staked him in his chest before injecting him with Vervain again. I couldn't believe that he actually said that to me. Elena wasn't just any girl, she was my first love, actually. With Katherine it was more of lust and curiosity, and believing that I loved her. It wasn't real. But with Elena, it is real, especially now that she admitted that she loved me.
When I went upstairs, I found Elena looking down, clearly hearing every word that Stefan said. Tears were trailing down her cheeks, but she avoided my gaze.
I pulled her in a tight embrace and put my chin on her head while I rubbed her back comfortingly.
"You don't believe him, do you?"
"No, of course not," She sobbed. "It just hurts though… Speaking like that about you. I know you love me, Damon…"
"Shh, shh," I hushed, wiping her tears away. "He's not himself, Elena. He'll regret saying that, trust me."
I held her like that for what seemed like an eternity, and she calmed down a bit.
I kissed the top of her head. "I just wish it was a better birthday for you…"
"It's not your fault," She said, wiping her nose with the back of her hand.
"Go and get some sleep. You'll feel better tomorrow."
I doubt that.
I really wished everything was perfect… when I called Caroline to throw her the birthday party; I knew that something would happen. It wouldn't be Mystic Falls and Elena if nothing did. But at least, I managed to cheer her up for a few hours. I knew that the next day it was going to be a day full of questions to be answered.
I carried her to the bed and went to drown my sorrows in my bottle of bourbon.
Klaus's POV
"One simple task! That's all I asked!" I roared as Rebecca returned empty handed.
"Things got complicated…"
"You don't get to speak!" I roared, throwing my glass to the wall.
She mouthed sorry through her teeth.
"And if this isn't enough, you had to lose Stefan too," I said again as I wiped my forehead in frustration.
She bit her lip.
"I'll get that silver stake, even if it means killing everyone Elena loves until she invites you in. You're the only one that can get that. It belonged to your family…"
"I won't fail you again," She promised. "I'll find a way."
"You better. Because if you don't, I promise you, my dear Rebecca, you will pay a harsh price."
Surprise! The Silver Stake (The one that Jeremy must use to kill Klaus along with the other items) is in the Salvatore Boarding House itself.
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