MF High School

Elena, Stefan, Damon, Rose, Jeremy, and Bonnie all walked into the dance. Rose looked around...so this was an American high school dance. She laughed a little to herself. Were they all like this?

As the girl from earlier stepped onto stage and dedicated a song to Elena from Klaus they all realized they had to be even more on guard then before. Klaus could compel anyone at anytime.

Damon finally suggested that they spread out.

"Blend in." he told them.

Rose looked at him. "Sure, blend in when I'm not used to these things."

He grinned. "Come on."

"What? Oh Damon no I don't really dance..."

"What all those fancy shindigs you went to...you're going to tell me you don't know how to dance?" Damon asked.

"OK fine, I know how to dance formally...what these kids are doing is not dancing." she said.

He laughed. "I know...let's show them up." he grabbed her arm.

Oh dear. This wasn't what a chaperone was supposed to do was it? Couldn't she just stand here and keep an eye out?

She followed him anyways though and he began moving her around the floor. She sighed as she let him lead...after all he was pretty damn good at it.

After a few minutes Damon noticed Stefan nodding at him to come dance with Elena so that she wasn't left alone.

"Can you keep an eye out? I gotta go replace Stefan."

"Sure." Rose nodded. She made herself comfortable at the edge of the dance floor, glad to be out of the sea of people.

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Rose looked up when she noticed Damon had switched to dance with Bonnie. She couldn't help but listen in.

"You heard me talking to Jeremy?" Bonnie asked him.

"Is it true?" Damon asked her.

Was what true? Rose thought.

"The part where you have a 50/50 chance at surviving this?"

Oh crap. If that was true she should have talked Dean and Sam into waiting to go after Eve. They needed to be here...maybe the Colt should have been option number 1.

"Yeah." Bonnie said quietly.

"So you have no problem putting your life on the line for Elena no matter what?"

"Yes." Bonnie said, completely sure. "You can't tell Elena."

"Secret's safe with me...but with all that power are you sure you can't up your chances?"

"Careful Damon, you almost sound like you care." Bonnie teased.

Damon meerly shrugged.

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Rose walked over to a corner and pulled out her phone.

"Hey, it's me. I know your busy with Eve...but we could really use your help with Klaus. No one's supposed to know, but apparently there's a good chance Bonnie will die if she uses her power to kill Klaus. I think we need your gun to be option 1. Look, call me when you can Dean."

Rose hung up after she left her message.

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Rose joined Stefan and Damon, it was obvious Stefan had found out about Bonnie.

They all looked up hearing something come from one of the hallways.

"What was that?" Rose asked.

"I don't know. Stay here, we'll go find out. Actually can you try to find Elena, she went to talk with Bonnie." Damon suggested.

Rose nodded, and walked off as Damon and Stefan rushed to the hall.

A few minutes later Rose rushed to where Damon was.

"What is it?"

"I saw Alaric take Elena and Bonnie to find Jeremy, I guess Klaus has him. What do you need me to do?" Rose asked.

"What? Jeremy's fine we just saved his ass from some compelled kids."

"Then Alaric's compelled." Rose said. Not good.

"Get Stefan" Damon told her as he blurred off to go find the girls.

Once she found him, Stefan and Rose made their way over to the other end of the school. Elena was running towards them.

"Klaus has control over Alarics body...he's not compelled." Elena said quickly.

"What?"

"How's that possible? He's a vampire not a demon." Rose said.

"Witch stuff..I don't know. Bonnie and Damon are still over there." Elena said. The three of them ran back to where they were.

"Took you long enough." Damon said.

"Where's Bonnie?" Elena asked, looking around.

"She's doing what she has to do." Damon told them.

"What?" Stefan asked.

"Let her do this." Damon said.

Oh no Damon...he couldn't ask them to let her die could he? Rose thought.

"Damn it Damon! Where is she?" Stefan yelled, Elena then took off past Damon. Stefan ran after her.

Rose gave him a hard look.

"What?"

"I know Elena's important to you...but letting Bonnie die is supposed to help how?"

"Look we have a plan. Trust me, it's not what you think."

"What does that mean?" Rose asked him.

"It means you know me...and so just trust me." Damon told her. "Look, Elena's going to need to deal when she gets back home...can you go back to the house and wait there for them?"

Rose agreed. She didn't like it at all...but she did trust him. She might be the only one who believed in him, but he trusted her back. So turned and left.

He turned and took off to where Stefan and Elena found Bonnie.

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Salvatore house

Elena is sitting curled up on the large chair, Stefan next to her. Rose walks in and hands Stefan the cup of tea and he tries handing it to Elena.

"Drink this."

"Elena you need to." Rose told her. Rose knew Elena was on the verge of passing out...she looked terrible. She sure hoped Damon knew what he was doing.

"This is all my fault." Elena said, tears falling.

"No, it's Klaus'." Stefan told her.

"He's right Elena...it isn't your fault."

Damon then walked in the door.

Elena jumped up.

"What'd you do with Bonnie?"

"Calm her down." Damon told Stefan.

"Don't talk like I'm not here." Elena said.

"Fine. Please calm down."

"You knew, you knew she was going to die didn't you?" Elena demanded.

Rose looked at Damon, giving him a look that said 'whatever your plan was you need to start talking.'

"Yes I knew."

Elena shook her head.

"Damon." Rose said. He understood...he had to explain, now.

"Elena you need to listen to what I'm about to say. Bonnie had to die. Klaus taking over Alaric's body was a surprise, we weren't prepared for that, neither was Bonnie. We weren't going to be able to stop him until Klaus beleived she was dead."

Elena looked up at him.

Believed?

Rose knew exactly what Damon and Bonnie did.

"Bonnie's fine." Damon said.

"What?" Elena asked in a whisper.

"She cast a spell, Bonnie's okay."

Damon turned and walked to the stairs. Rose followed him.

"So that's what you meant by trusting you?" Rose asked they walked upstairs towards his room.

He nodded.

"You could've said something."

"No, figured he'd hear me...and then go blab to his girlfriend."

"She went through a lot..."

"I know. Rose I'm okay with being the bad guy while everyone worries about feelings and collateral damage. She can hate me for it, as long as she's alive."

Rose nodded. She understood him, and she knew he cared.

"I don't think she'll hate you...but might be angry for a while.

"I'm good with that."

"I know."

Damon stripped down and started changing. Rose would've done the same, but then her phone rang.

"I'm going to take this outside." Rose said.

"They're a little late." Damon said, but nodded.

She headed out of the room and answered the phone, passing Elena who was on her way up to talk to Damon. She seemed calm, so maybe she wasn't as angry as they thought she'd be. Rose hoped that was the case.

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Outside

"Dean." Rose answered.

You called, we're on our way back. Everyone still alive?

"For now. Klaus was here, Bonnie fought him...she faked her death, long story. I'll explain when you get here. The cravings have subsided, is Eve gone?"

Yeah...but we have another problem." Dean said. "That we'll deal with after Klaus.

"What?"

Crowley.

"I thought you killed him?"

So did we. Eve said Crowley's still out there tormenting her creatures, which is why she was doing all this.

"Is Castiel coming with you?" Rose asked, still a little hopeful he could make her human again.

He went to search for info on Crowley.

"Ok. Look it's been a long day, we'll talk when you get here. How far out are you?"

A couple days...you did send us all the way to Oregon you know. Dean said.

"I know. It's fine, I'll see you then." Rose hung up.

Rose was about to walk upstairs when she saw Elena sitting on a chair in the front room.

"You okay?" Rose asked.

"I don't know." She answered honestly. "I talked to Bonnie on the laptop."

"You talk to Damon too?"

"Yeah. I don't disagree with his plan...but I don't trust he won't do something like that again. He said he'd choose me over her any day."

"And he would." Rose agreed. "Where's Damon anyways?"

"He went out."

"Look Elena, you're not around him as much...I know how much he cares about you. I understand you don't want him to risk anyone else for you, but that's something we won't get him to change."

Elena nodded. "Except you."

"No." Rose disagreed. "If it meant saving you he'd risk me too. He knows that I get that, and I'm okay with it."

"How can you be?"

"Because Damon's the first to believe in me in a long time, he's the first to care about me in as long as I can remember too. I told him I'd stay and help because I care...but I know how he feels about you and therefore whatever he's willing to risk it's worth it to him, and that makes it worth it to me. I told you before, you're lucky to have these people in your life. And Damon, I'm glad to be his friend. I wish he knew how good he could be...and that he deserves to be chosen."

Elena could say nothing back. She was Damon's friend too, but Rose looked at him in such a different way. Damon was lucky to have her.

"I'm going to bed. Goodnight Elena." Rose said, turning to walk upstairs.

"Night." Elena said. She waited several minutes to make sure Rose was all the way upstairs and that everyone else was gone before she went down to the basement to where Elijah's body was kept.

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