Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to The Vampire Diaries, TV show or books. However, I decided to have a little play around with the characters (I would definitely like to play with Damon).
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Sorry for the delay, but I struggled to get the chapter to go how I wanted it to, and it still didn't get to the point where I wanted it. I realized certain other things had to happen, which made it a little more drawn out than I hoped, however, this chapter moves the plot forward a lot.
I hope you enjoy it.
Just as Damon was about to lead Laura out of the room, from the corner of her eye, she spotted the familiar figure of Connor Jordan. Laura quickly pulled Damon into the room where she'd not so long ago, fed from the roofie guy. Damon looked around the room, completely confused as Laura peaked out and saw him meeting up with Professor Shane.
"I didn't know you were into kinky public sex." Damon raised an eyebrow.
Laura rolled her eyes "I thought Elijah told you Connor Jordan was on a flight from Seattle." She whispered.
Damon got out his phone and showed her the text, confirming Damon's story. "What's going on?" he asked.
"See that guy talking to Professor Shane?" Laura asked as Damon looked up the stairs and nodded. "That's Connor Jordan." She told him. "Whoever Elijah is tracking, is someone completely different." She said in a hushed voice. "We've got to get out of here. He'll know there's vampires around, he's supernaturally programmed to kill them.
"Elijah's witch must be on the blink." Damon said, looking confused.
Just then Professor Shane and Connor made their way downstairs. Damon pushed Laura up against the wall and began to kiss her. However, they were both preoccupied with Connor, therefore, although the kiss was still amazing, they were both more interested in Connor than the kiss. As soon as Professor Shane and Connor left the building, they stopped kissing.
"Who the hell was he talking to on the phone?" Damon frowned. "It clearly wasn't Connor."
"I wonder if it was Hayley." Laura suggested.
"Who the hell is Hayley?" Damon asked.
"She's the one who gets rid of Klaus?" Laura told him.
"She kills him?" Damon looked concerned as Laura shook her head.
"Klaus leaves and moves to New Orleans." Laura explained. "Because of Hayley."
"She hot?" Damon raised an eyebrow as Laura rolled her eyes.
"Klaus gets her pregnant." Laura told him as Damon looked at her in complete shock.
"How?" Damon asked.
"Because he's a werewolf." Laura explained. "Look, don't you think we should follow them or something?"
Damon nodded as they followed them all the way to Professor Shane's office. The door was slightly ajar, which meant Damon and Laura could stand a fair distance away and still hear what they were saying.
"I need you to go to Mystic Falls under the guise of looking into the explosion at the Young farm." Professor Shane told him.
"Are there plenty of vampires for me to kill?" Connor asked.
"They've left town." Professor Shane told him. "But don't worry, they'll be back soon." He told him. "I have a plan to lure them back." He said.
"How?" Connor asked.
"You don't need to know the details. Just go there. You might need to wait a couple of days for them to arrive, but trust me, they will." Professor Shane told him. There was silence for a minute before Professor Shane spoke once more. "Are you going to just stand there or are you going to find somewhere to stay in Mystic Falls?" he asked.
Damon and Laura looked around and they both spotted a door. They rushed over and opened it, finding it was a janitors closet. Luckily, there was plenty of room inside, so they hid inside until Connor walked past, followed by Professor Shane a few minutes later.
"Who is this guy? GI Joe?" Damon asked. "I don't get why you're so scared, he's human."
"He has supernatural strength." Laura explained. "He's not just a normal hunter. He can take you on. He was in the military and is an expert on weapons. He makes Ric look like a novice."
"Ric was a novice." Damon frowned.
"This guy is intense. He will not stop. He uses werewolf toxin in nail bombs." She told him as Damon widened his eyes in shock.
"Impressive. If we get Ric back, I'll suggest that to him." Damon said absentmindedly, as he suddenly surveyed their surroundings. "You know, if we weren't on the trail of a vampire hunter, this would be an excellent place to make out." He smirked.
"Do you have a one-track mind?" Laura asked.
"You did earlier." Damon reminded her.
"That was before Connor Jordan showed up." Laura shook her head.
"I'm multi-tasking." Damon grinned.
"Let's get out of here." Laura sighed as Damon pouted. "We need to warn everyone that Connor is on his way to Mystic Falls and has the addresses of the lake houses."
"We should get our loved ones out of town." Damon told her.
"And go where?" Laura asked.
"Let's get back to the car and have a look at the list you took pictures of." Damon said. "That way, we know who we need to tell to leave." He said to which Laura nodded, before sneaking out of the closet and hurrying back to the car.
Once inside Damon frowned. Laura knew he was going to say something, but she had no idea what was going through his head. He looked concerned as he began to send multiple texts.
"Who are you texting?" Laura asked.
"My brother, Blondie, Sabrina, the Sheriff and the Mayor." Damon told her as Laura began to search the list of names and addresses of Professor Shane's list. "Is there anyone else on there you want to save?" he asked.
"I guess Elena would want me to save Matt." Laura shrugged, although she had to admit, she was softening towards him.
"You sure?" Damon raised an eyebrow.
"I'll text him." Laura sighed as she continued to look through the list. Fortunately, there was no mention of New Orleans, however, there was one person on the list who stood out. "Jeremy." Laura whispered. "He's on this list with a Denver address."
"He's under the protection of Kol." Damon told her. "We'll get them out." He said.
"To go where?" Laura asked. "We can't just ask these people to leave Mystic Falls and go nowhere." She said. "We can't all meet up at the same and place. This list suggests he has someone helping him, maybe a witch doing a locator spell." She said.
"The priority now, is to get people out of Mystic Falls." Damon told her. "We'll work out the details later." He said.
They eventually reached the lake house, where Caroline and Stefan were waiting for them, already packed and ready to go. Laura had sent the pictures of the list to Caroline, as she would know where everyone lived and if there were relatives not on the list where people could go.
"Where are we going?" Caroline asked as they got out of the car.
"We need to find a motel." Damon said. "Have you managed to get people out of Mystic Falls?" he asked.
"My mom is staying with one of my aunts in Richmond." Caroline told the.. "Mrs. Lockwood is staying with her brother. Their names weren't on the list. Matt, Bonnie, Abby and Jamie are all meeting up with us as soon as we decide where we're going." She said.
"That just leaves Jeremy." Laura sighed.
"Kol can take him to New Orleans." Damon told her. "Which is where we're heading."
"I thought you said to split up." Laura frowned.
"Keeping Liz and Carol separate, plus Busboy." Damon agreed. "But we need to stick together." He said. "Kol can take Jeremy to New Orleans." He said.
"But vampires can't kill Connor, and if Connor dies, he'll be replaced by Jeremy." Laura told them. "Klaus is going to want the cure. He knows who The Five are and what they lead to. With Connor he can get that. He'll want to make me human again." She said sadly.
"You still want to stay a vampire? Even after learning how to fee?" Stefan looked at Laura in disgust.
"Yeah." Laura looked at Stefan in surprise. "It's not so bad. I just give them something back. A purpose, you could say." She smiled.
Stefan rolled his eyes. "Where are we going?" he asked.
"We head to New Orleans." Damon told them. "There's a motel about forty miles from here. Laura and I need to stop to do the spell Bonnie gave us to keep Laura's memories, so we'll stay there. We might need them to help us with this Connor guy." He said.
"How do you do the spell?" Caroline asked.
"Laura takes the herbs, has a relaxing bath. They will send her to sleep. I can then extract them from her mind and memorize them." Damon explained. "If she needs or wants them back, I can put them back. But this will help with the ones she's already forgot."
"Is it urgent?" Stefan frowned.
"Bonnie text me to tell me it had to be done by tomorrow, so yes. Otherwise we have to wait another month and the spell will be harder as Damon will have to go deeper into my subconscious." Laura told them.
"Well I'm not leaving you alone with Damon!" Caroline folded her arms.
"I'm old enough to make my own decision." Laura raised an eyebrow. "I have a lot more life experience than you do."
"He just wants to get you into bed." Caroline shook her head. "He'll toss you aside when he's done." She warned.
"Funny, cus that's not how it went down in the show." Laura folded her arms.
"And how exactly did it go down?" Caroline asked. "Let me guess, a lot of sex was involved."
Laura thought for a minute before nodding. "Yep, a lot of sex. But it was more than that, they got married and lived happily ever after." She said.
"And you want to go down the same path?" Caroline raised an eyebrow.
"Elena can't survive without Damon." Laura tried to explain. "And I'm becoming that person. As much as I try to stop it, it's going to happen. At some point, I probably won't be able to survive without him. And I don't mean physically. It's about emotional survival. Without Damon, Elena could easily go off the rails and be as deadly as he is." She told her. "I've just got to come to terms with our future."
"You can still change that." Caroline insisted.
"Can I?" Laura frowned. "This is my second attempt of trying to avoid having feelings and desires for Damon, and both times it appears I can't resist him. I wanted Stefan and Elena to be together when I watched the show. I even had the hots for Stefan. But since I came into this world, I haven't had that desire for Stefan. He doesn't affect me in the same way Damon does. I can tell Elena loves Stefan, but she's not in love with Stefan."
"How do you know?" Caroline asked.
"I can feel her residual emotions." Laura explained. "Look Caroline, I'm a big girl. I can take care of myself when it comes to Damon. He needs me and I need him."
"But Stefan is your soulmate." Caroline insisted.
Laura shook her head. "No, he's not." She said. "Stefan wanted a human Katherine. When Elena becomes a vampire; he wants her to be human again. He couldn't accept her as a vampire. If Stefan and Elena were soulmates, he'd accept her both ways." Laura turned to Damon, let's find somewhere with a bathtub." She said as she and Damon loaded their car with their things while Caroline looked on, clearly unhappy with the outcome of their conversation.
It didn't take long to find the motel they were looking for. Damon had purposely suggested one that was decent and had a bathtub. It also had a bar and there was a hospital nearby so they could grab some blood bags. Stefan and Caroline had reluctantly agreed to stay at the same motel for the night. They'd even booked into the same room as each other, next to Damon and Laura's room. Once they'd unpacked for the night, they agreed to meet Stefan and Caroline in the bar to discuss what they were going to do next.
Laura, Caroline and Stefan found a booth while Damon went to the bar to get some drinks. A few minutes later he joined them with a bottle of tequila and a bottle of bourbon, ensuring they had plenty to keep them going for a couple of hours.
"What's the plan Damon?" Stefan started. "Shouldn't we be working out ways to get rid of this Connor guy?" he asked.
"We can't." Laura told them. "If a vampire kills him, then they will want to kill themselves. And a human can't take him down." She said.
"What about Bonnie?" Caroline asked, trying to hide the frostiness in her voice from their earlier argument.
"If we kill Connor, then Jeremy will become a hunter, and we are not killing him. Killing Connor is not an option." Laura said determinedly.
"We could hold him prisoner." Stefan suggested, however, Laura shook her head.
"He's too good. He'll escape. Klaus couldn't hold him. He's ex-military, an ace with booby traps. Seems to know how to extract werewolf venom and turn it into a toxin. We need another plan." Laura sighed. "I think we should let him do his job."
"And what's that?" Caroline asked.
"To kill Silas." Laura explained. "We'll take Ric with us, feed him the cure, let Silas drink from Ric and then Connor can kill Silas." she suggested.
"That's your grand plan?" Damon frowned. "I can see a lot of issues with this. Like Connor tries to kill us before we even explain it to him." He frowned. "Can't we kill Connor and let little Gilbert do the honors?" he asked.
Laura shook her head. "I don't want to risk Jeremy's life. Silas is too dangerous, and Connor stands a better chance against him than Jeremy does." She said. "Plus, I think Katherine is onto us, she's got a hunter helping her." Laura frowned as she suddenly realized what had happened. "It's Katherine." She rolled her eyes and shook her head.
"What's Katherine?" Damon asked.
"Elijah and Katherine are having an affair." Laura explained, rendering then speechless, except Damon who began to make gagging noises, to which Laura slapped him on the arm. "I'm beginning to wonder of the witch Elijah used might have been one of hers, meaning he was giving us false information, even if he didn't know it." She said.
"He trusted Katherine?" Damon laughed. "And I thought he was intelligent."
"Love is blind." Caroline raised an eyebrow. "Elena, or Laura loves you remember." she said sarcastically.
"But I'm hot." Damon smirked.
"This is not getting us anywhere." Stefan sighed.
"Thank you Stefan." Laura said gratefully. "It is possible to stop a hunter from killing. But we need to give him incentive. We need to be able to complete his Hunter's Mark. If he finds out what Professor Shane is really up to, then he'll probably kill him. But maybe we can use Professor Shane instead." She smirked.
"How?" Stefan asked.
"Professor Shane knows about doppelgangers. Which means if he finds out I'm one who is in the process of merging, he'll want to keep me alive." Laura explained. "He can rewire Connor not to kill us, as long as I tell him what has to be done to raise Silas." She said. "Obviously we'll need Bonnie, but I'm not sure what we can do about the second massacre." She frowned.
"Second massacre?" Caroline asked.
"Hybrids." Laura explained. "He needs to kill twelve hybrids." She said.
"How does Jeremy complete his mark?" Stefan asked.
"He kills Kol." Laura told them. "That's our bargaining chip. We need the Originals to think Connor is going elsewhere, so they can return to Mystic Falls. Certain events have to happen, but I can't remember them all." She frowned.
"We need to do the transfer spell as quickly as possible." Damon said. "Once we've got your knowledge, then we can work out what to do. Right now, you're trying to fight this alone." He said. "We're just following what you say, but nobody knows if this is going to work. If I know what's happening, then at least I can come up with ideas."
"Can Damon show us what he finds out?" Caroline asked.
"I don't know." Laura shook her head. "The spell is specifically for me. We don't even know what Damon himself will see." She said as she looked at her phone. "We need to get this done. It's going to be daylight in a few hours."
Damon nodded. "Okay." He turned to Caroline and Stefan. "You guys need to get some rest and maybe stock up on some blood. We'll meet you here in a few hours after the transfer." He said as Laura and Damon got up to leave.
"Good luck." Caroline smiled genuinely for the first time in what seemed like a lifetime.
"Let us know when you've finished." Stefan told them.
"We'll call you as soon as we're done." Laura agreed as she and Damon left the bar and returned to their room.
Laura mixed the herbs with some water and drank the disgusting mixture straight down, while Damon ran her a bath. The tub wasn't exactly the height of luxury, but most importantly, it was clean. She stayed in it for about half an hour, when she started to become drowsy. Laura climbed out, put her pajamas on and joined Damon who was busy on his phone and drinking whiskey.
"You ready?" Damon asked as Laura climbed under the sheets, hardly able to keep her eyes open.
"As ready as I'll ever be." she yawned as Damon climbed into the bed next to her.
Damon was sat upright and rested Laura's head on his lap, and began to stroke her hair, which relaxed Laura even more. She turned her head and looked up at him, his blue eyes staring down at her, a look of love and devotion shining through.
"Kiss me." Laura whispered.
Damon leaned down and placed his lips against hers. As he did, Laura suddenly felt a warmth envelope her, before the darkness crept in, and she was finally asleep.
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