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I watched the light slowly creep in taking its time filling up the room, I sat up in my bed, the spell would have broken at dawn but thankfully no sign of Damon. I threw on a pair of yoga pants and and T-shirt, grabbing my hoodie off the chair. I needed a walk, to be by myself somewhere that wasn't here. I took my necklace off the door handle as I walked out, clipping it back on. I stepped off the porch, "Damon?" I said really hoping I wouldn't get a response, I didn't.
I put my headphones in on one side and started down the street, cutting through a couple of back yards and into the woods. I kept the music low enough I could still hear what was going on. About 20 minutes into me aimlessly walking through the woods I heard a branch crack behind me, I whipped around but there was no one there. "I'm pretty sure this borders on stalking." I called out before turning around and continuing in my previous direction. I ignored the crunch of leaves coming from my left, whoosh there was Damon standing in front of me.
"What?" I said stopping, Damon didn't say anything, "I assume you've been following me since the house, so spit it out."
"For your information I didn't start following you until you ducked into the woods, I was on my way back to your house." He said taking a step towards me, "I left last night just like you asked, went drinking."
"That's comforting. So what are you doing here?" I took a step back.
His eyes flicked up and down me, "Stefan's bringing Elena to the house we're going to see if Alaric can dig up anything about the Lockwood's, thought you might be interested."
"Fine." I said walking past him.
"Where are you going?" He asked catching up to me.
"The river is over there," I pointed, "So the boarding house is this way."
"You would be correct but you're just going to walk?"
I stopped and turned towards him, "Well I don't see the fucking Camaro out her anywhere so yeah I'm going to walk." I stared moving again.
"I could carry you, much faster."
"No thanks." It was tempting, I was tired of walking already and this extra trip was not in the plans for the day.
"How can I fix this?"
"Got a time machine?" I said quickening my pace, I knew I wouldn't actually get away from him but I was still wasn't quite ready to deal with my anger yet. We hadn't gone far when my foot caught on a root, I threw my hands out and close my eyes preparing for an impact that didn't come. I opened my eyes and Damon helped me to my upright position, "Thanks." I said shortly. I must have twisted my ankle funny because the further we walked the worse it felt. My stubbornness deteriorating quickly I stopped moving, "Fine." I said.
"Fine what?" He asked.
"Carry me, I hurt myself when I tripped and we still have quite a walk, I give up." I held my arms out and Damon scooped me up, I wrapped my arms around his neck, "You might want to close your eyes." He said quietly. I did, I suppressed a shiver this was the closest we'd been since last night deep down enjoying it. It was similar to being vamped around a room just a tad bit longer of an experience. When I opened my eyes we were at the front door of the boarding house, he set me down gently, his hands pausing on my waist.
I moved my arms off of his neck, "I'm still mad."
"Of course you are." He said opening the door and motioning me to come in. I stepped through the door way and into the living room, Elena and Stefan sitting on couch Alaric standing behind them. I sat across from them kicking off my shoes and pulling my knees up. Damon poured himself a drink sitting next to me, I hugged my knees closer trying to increase the space between us.
"So Elena said you guys needed my help." Alaric spoke up, walking in between the couches.
"We were hoping you could help us out with the whole Lockwood situation." Stefan answered.
"And how exactly would I be able to help with that?"
Damon answered this time, "Well we were hoping you're dead not dead ex wife might know a thing or two."
"Learn some tact Damon." Elena snapped, I snorted earning a look from Damon.
"Isobel reasearch was rooted in the myths and folklore surrounding mystic falls." Alaric stated.
"Other then vampires what is there?"
"The lycanthrope."
"Werewolves?" I asked quietly, before a huge grin spread across my face. I looked at Damon, "HA, told you."
"No way, werewolves are not real. I've been around for one hundred and sixty plus years and never met one." Damon replied.
"Why do you suspect the Lockwoods?" Alaric asked.
"Because vervain doesn't affect them but they were taken down by the Gilbert device. Uncle Mason showed of some pretty impressive strength at the carnival."
"All of Isobel research is still at Duke, everything should be in her old office."
Damon threw his arm around me and pointed to Elena and Alaric with his other hand, "Great so the four of us will go to Duke and see what we can find and Stef can deal with Caroline."
I picked Damon's hand up off of my shoulder and stood up slipping my shoes back on, "As much as it would thrill me to be stuck in and enclosed space with you for an undetermined amount of time, I'm going to take a hard pass. Besides I have to meet Bonnie in like and hour."
"In public right?" Damon asked with a worried look.
"No I thought we'd meet up in the middle of the woods and have a witch-off, whoever walks away is the reigning witch of mystic falls." I watched as Damon's face turned to annoyed, "We're meeting at the grill for coffee, I'm going to wave my little white flag and ask for a truce because after last night if we keep this up one or both of us is going to end up dead and I don't like my odds." I started to walk towards the door remembering I walked here sorta. "Elena can I get a ride home please?"
"Yeah I'll be right out." She said I nodded and I walked outside, before I closed the door I heard Elena, "I don't know what you did to her but you better fix it." I assume she was talking Damon.
Stefan rode with Elena and I, Damon and Alaric following behind. Once we got to the house I ran inside to get ready for my coffee with Bonnie by the time I was done everyone was outside getting ready to leave. Stefan walked up to me, "Hey I need a favor, can you make Caroline a daylight ring?"
"As much as I'd love to help vampire Barbie walk in the sun again, I can't. I don't know the spell Bonnie would have it."
"Would you ask her?"
"You can, after I get my truce."
"Awful dressed up for coffee." Damon said walking around the front of the truck.
"There's a party at the Lockwood's swimming hole later I don't feel like getting dressed twice." I shrugged, I wasn't super dressed up but I didn't look like a bum either.
"Sure you wouldn't rather come with us? It'll be fun." He said raising his eyebrows.
"Oh I'm sure." I smirked and walked towards my truck.
When I pulled into the grill I saw Bonnie was already here, I took a deep breath I already knew what I was going to say, I'd been practicing since she'd texted me last night. I walked in and found her sitting in one of the booths looking as nervous as I felt. When I sat down I noticed she had a similar burn on her wrist, "Twinsies." I said putting my wrist on the table.
"Yeah definitely not an experience I'd like to repeat." She said.
"Well that's why I'm glad you wanted to meet, we can't keep doing this, fighting each other."
"I know, its just you know my grams, after she figured out you were and elemental she though she could keep you out of trouble. Then Emily showed up talking about your magic not being yours and grams got it in her mind you were a threat. The closer you got to Damon the more I agreed with her."
"Let's leave Damon out of this, I know you blame him for everything but he's not as bad as he could be. Also let's not forget Elementals died siding with spirit whitches too."
"So what we just steer clear of each other?"
"If that's what you want, I was thinking more of a truce. No more malicious magic on each other, you help me I help you."
"Deal." She stuck out her hand and I took it. "That compound I gave you to help heal the vampire bite should help the burn too." I smiled and then looked past her seeing Stefan across the grill I gave a small nod and he headed over.
"Oh look Stefan who I had no idea was here." I said in a sarcastic voice.
Bonnie rolled her eyes, I scooted over so Stefan could sit down. "So I know I'm probably the last person you want to talk to but I need a favor." He said looking at Bonnie, "I need you to make Caroline a daylight ring."
"She killed someone I'm not going to make that easier for her to do again besides I don't know how."
"Caroline is never going to make it if she can't hold on to her humanity, having a ring will give her some semblance of a normal life. As far as the spell goes I'm sure it's in Emily's grimoire."
"Why can't you do it Alexis?"
"Because I don't know the spell, I'd be happy to let you show it to me, I'll get the next one." I laughed.
Bonnie rolled her eyes, "I don't think I can trust Caroline with this."
"Then trust me." Stefan said, Bonnie nodded.
"Well then let's get this show on the road." I said standing up.
Damon's pov
"So you going to enlighten us on why Alexis is mad at you?" Elena asked from the back seat.
"If she hasn't told you guess it's not worth talking about." I responded shortly.
"Well she doesn't tell me anything anymore so that's not the best criteria."
"Just drop it Elena." I almost growled.
Elena's phone rang she answered and I could hear Alexis on the other line, "How much is the bet for?"
"The who cuts their hair first bet?"
"Yeah that's the one."
"Fifty dollars why?"
"The mental breakdown gods are calling and it's strong, not sure it's fifty dollars strong though. Ok that's all I needed bye." I heard the line clock before Elena could respond.
"What was that about?" I asked.
"Alexis may be bald when we get back home, but hey if she is I made fifty bucks." She shrugged.
Alexis's Pov
After our little meeting with Bonnie and my phone call to Elena I headed over to Caroline's with Stefan, I didn't want to be here but Stefan said she was persistent about needing to talk to me. Bonnie was going to meet us here after going to get her book. Caroline couldn't cross the hall to open the door so we let ourselves in she was curled up in ther bed with the curtains drawn. Stefan waited outside, "So an annoying little birdie said you wanted to talk to me." I said stepping into the room.
"I guess I just wanted to say thank you, for saving my life. I guess I should probably say I'm sorry too for making you miserable."
"I wasn't just going to let you die but I don't forgive you. I may not exactly remember all the things you said to me or about me but I've read what I assume is the worst of it. You're feeling extra emotional your guilt is magnified you're only apologizing to make you feel better." There was a knock on the door Bonnie peeked her head in, she let me look at the spell and take a picture of it while she explained the rules to Caroline, "The same witch that spelled the ring can unspell the ring. So if you hurt anyone -"
"I'm not going to hurt anyone." Caroline interrupted. "You think I meant to kill that guy at the carnival."
"He's still dead your vampire nature is to kill, the second you let that part take over I'll stop you."
"You're supposed to be my friend Bonnie."
"If you want me to trust you for us to be friends then you need to show me the old Caroline is still in there. Now put the ring on the bed." Caroline did Bonnie picked it up and held it in a sliver of light coming though the curtains, I could just barely heard re say the spell. She threw the ring at Caroline.
"So that's it?" Caroline asked slipping the ring on her finger, "Like no flashing lights or weird wind?"
I took a step forward and threw open the curtains, Caroline coward on the bed, "Oh my God Alexis what if it didn't work?"
"It did." Bonnie said nodding at me and then walking out.
"As much as I'd love to watch Caroline take down Bambi I have a party to pregame for." I said following Bonnie's footsteps.
Damon's pov
"So technically Isobel is still employed by the anthropology department since most paranormal phenomenons are rooted in folklore." Alaric stayed as we walked up to the building. I'd been resisting the urge to text Alexis since we'd gotten across state lines, I wanted to make sure her meeting Bonnie hadn't turned sideways. Stefan was supposed to meet up with them too so I'm sure I'd have heard something if it had. Alaric introduced himself, Elena and I to a woman named Vanessa, the brunett led us to another room covered in books and artifacts. "I'll just get the light." Vanessa said before walking away.
I looked around the room quickly realizing Vanessa was gone, "where'd she go?" She jumped out from the door way crossbow pointed at Elena, I jumped in front of her just in time to take the arrow in the back. Alaric shoved Vanessa out of the room to talk to her.
"Elena get it out. I can't reach it." I groaned.
"Why is Alexis so mad at you?" She asked stepping forward.
"Really were going to do this now?"
She yanked the arrow back and I yelled out, "That bitch is dead."
"No she's not ."
"Oh yeah and why's that?"
She crossed her arms, "You think Alexis is going to forgive you if you keep adding shit for her to be pissed off about? You can't just kill whoever you want cause the mood strikes you."
"Well someone jumped right on the manipulation train I see. Considering you don't even know why she's mad I'm going to take your advice with a grain of salt." I said walking into the next room Elena following closely behind me.
"Look I freaked out O.K. it's not possible Kathrine Pierce can't be alive and Damon Salvatore died in 1864. I've read Isobel a research." Vanessa said she tried to stand up but Alaric pushed her back down, "So you should know just how possible this really is." He replied.
"So I'm Elena Gilbert a decendant of Kathrine and this is Damon Salvatore who you just shot."
I waved my hand, "I'd be extra nice to me right now."
"We need anything to do with mystic falls." Elena said firmly Vanessa nodded and walked away to find us what we needed.
Alexis pov
Izzy had the best timing she'd texted me last week letting me know she'd be home for spring break house sitting while her parents went on a cruise. I hadn't really been interested when she told me but now I was ready to have some fun. It was perfect their property butted right up against the Lockwood's on the swimming hole side. We could party as hard as we wanted and only have a 5 minute stumble home. I hadn't told anyone Izzy was here mostly because I knew the kind of talks I was going to get. Break down gods momentarily in check, we smoked a couple of joints back to back while she got dressed, I had a fantastic buzz going on she came out of the bathroom with a piece of candy, she placed it in my hand and I took a closer look. It was a sour patch kid with a blotter strip on it, "Oh no, last time I hallucinated with you it did not end well." I said trying to hand it back.
"Oh don't be such a baby just one will get you a 6 hour trip max." Izzy said popping hers in her mouth.
"Nope I'm totally going to be a baby." I handed the candy back to her, she shrugged her shoulders and wrapped it back up putting it into her dresser.
Damon's pov
We been searching though boxes and books for a while now, Elena and Vanessa were in the other room searching through information about Kathrine coming to Mystic falls in the 1800's I wasn't finding anything super useful so I decided to eavesdrop.
"Does vervain really work?" Vanessa asked.
"Nope." I said looking at a box of junk.
"Can he hear us?"
"No. That would be super creepy."
"Can he read minds?"
"I know you want to see me naked but I've got a girl."
"No that he can't do." Elena said angrily, "You ever think your ability to be a first class jackass might have something to do with Alexis being mad at you?" She said turning to me.
"Believe it or not she finds me charming most of the time." I said smirking.
"Who's Alexis?" Vanessa asked.
"My sister slash his girlfriend?"
"Well she hasn't officially told me to fuck off so yeah." I went back to thumbing through one of the books.
"This is so frustrating there's nothing here that we don't already know about Kathrine." Elena said, it had been about a half an hour since the question and answer session with Vanessa earlier.
"Well if you weren't so mean to me earlier I might tell you what I know." I said walking past her smirking.
"And I'm the manipulative one." She said raising an eyebrow.
Alaric called us over before I could come back with a smart remark, Vanessa had found something.
"There's no record of werewolf mythology in Mystic Falls, but here are some records of some of the lesser-known legends. Everything from Scandinavian skin-walkers to the Maréchal de Retz." She handed us a book full of drawings, "Tonartsliitsii Metslii, which roughly translates into the "curse of the sun and the moon"".
"Native American?" Ric asked.
"It's Aztec it explains the origin of the werewolf curse through North America, apparently 600 years ago werewolves and vampires made it impossible to hunt or farm. So a curse was placed on them causing vampires to burn in the sun and werewolves to turn on the full moon." She explained.
"Can they control it?" I asked.
"It wouldn't be a curse then would it?"
"I'm pretty sure I'd know if werewolves are real."
"Not if they were almost hunted to extinction by vampires." She replied cocking one eyebrow.
"And why would they do that?"
"Well legend had it werewolf venom is fatal to a vampire."
"Oh." Elena and I said at the same time.
Elena's phone started ringing and temporary distracted me from this new information, "It's Caroline." Elena answered the phone and listened in.
"Hey Care whats up?"
"Did you know Izzy was in town?"
Elena and I both looked at each other, "Please tell me she's far far away from Alexis."
"No, she is not. Izzy is really fucked up Alexis seems normal I mean as normal as she can be stoned.
"Jesus, I'll take care of that when we get home, are you around Stefan by chance?"
"No."
"Care you need to go home it's not going to be safe for you after dark O.K. I'll call you back later."
I watched as she found Stefan's number this time she put it on speaker, "Hello."
"Hey so we found some stuff out, apparently a werewolf bite is lethal to a vampire. I already told Caroline you guys need to get out of there."
"I'll find Caroline make sure she leaves, what about your sister?
Elena looked over at me, I had been trying to call Alexis since Caroline called and still got no answer, I shook my head.
"Damon's been trying to call her but she's been dodging him you don't see her around?"
" I just saw her she was trying to be the voice or reason and get that Izzy girl to go home, they got into a fight and she stole a bottle and walked off into the woods."
"I'll try calling her you guys just get out of there O.K."
Alexis's pov
When the fuck did I become the responsible one? I thought to myself I'd taken several shots out of the bottle I snatched it was rum, gross but got the job done. I should have gone to Duke. My phone vibrated for the tenth time in five minutes I answered without looking at it, "What Damon?"
"Not Damon," Elena said, "Where are you?"
"I don't know half drunk in the middle of the woods why?"
"You need to go home and before you get all shitty I'm not trying to run your life, werewolves are real and we think Mason is one."
I heard a crack behind me, "Stefan?" I called out, "Never thought I'd say this but please god let it be Caroline," another snapping branch crunching leaves. "Seriously you don't want to fuck with me!" I called out.
"Alexis! Quit trying to be a bad ass and run!" I heard Damon's voice on the phone.
I wanted to but I felt like my feet were frozen to the ground.
"Alexis!" I heard again. Damon's voice snapped me out of it and I started running back towards the swimming hole, once I got there I stopped, listening for whatever I'd heard in the woods. I realized my phone was still in my hand and still connected to Elena, "I'm fine, but I'm stuck here Matt and Caroline's cars are here but they-"
"Caroline NO!" I heard Stefan's voice from off in the distance.
"I gotta go I'll call you back,"
"Alexis wai-" was all I heard before I hit the end button. I ran in the direction I'd heard Stefan, coming to a clearing I saw Matt laying on the ground he was hurt but awake. I crouched down next to him, "Did you see where Stefan and Caroline went?" I asked quietly. He nodded and points behind me, "Stay down." I said, he nodded and I took off in the direction he was pointing.
I found them talking to Tyler by some ruins in the woods, I stopped hands on my knees trying to catch my breath, "Guys, we, we gotta, go." I heard a branch crack behind me I turned around just in time to get knocked down by a huge wolf. I had my hands on its neck trying to keep from getting my throat ripped out, it snapped to the side grazing my arm with its razor like teeth. Stefan tackled it pushing it across the small clearing, the wolf turned towards Stefan ready to charge again, "NO!" Tyler yelled out. The wolf locked eyes with him then turned and ran back off into the woods.
Caroline walked over to try and help me up, I saw the the veins appear under her eyes, "Caroline, stay right there!" I said holding my non bleeding arm up. She backed up and got herself under control, Stefan stepped in between us making sure Caroline kept her distance. We scooped up Matt and headed back to the swimming hole, Caroline compelled him to forget about what happened while Stefan made a phone call.
I was leaned up against Caroline's car assessing my injuries now that the adrenaline had worn off, my arm needed stiches, I could feel a pretty bad cut on my face, pretty sure at least one broken rib and the injury to my ankle earlier was now much worse from all the running. Stefan walked over and handed me his phone, "Damon." was all he said before walking away.
"Hey," I said.
"Don't hey me, I thought you were dead. I called you like 9 times."
"I'm sorry I was kinda busy not fucking dying!"
"Stefan said you got hurt."
"I'll be fine nothing life threatening. Where are you?"
"We're on the way back like an hour out. Meet you at the house?"
"Yeah I'll see you soon."
I hit the end button and handed the phone back to Stefan, "I see you're not mad at him anymore."
"Almost getting your head torn off will definitely make you question some shit."
Stefan took me by Izzy's, all the lights were on and there were extra cars in the drive way looks like she made it home safe. I drove to the boarding house avoiding the main roads, god forbid I got pulled over an had to explain why I looked like I was coming from a crime scene. I walked into the boarding house and considered just waiting for Damon in the living room but I definitely needed a shower. I limped up the stairs once I'd finally gotten to Damon's bathroom I got the first real good look at myself. The cut on my face needed stiches as well as the bite on my arm, my shirt was torn up I must have ran through a thorn bush. I pulled my shirt off and my suspicion of a broke rib was confirmed by the giant angry bruise on my side, not to mention it kinda hurt to breath, a few more cuts and scrapes that matched the holes in my now ruined shirt. I finished getting underessed and got in the shower, I watched the mixture of blood and dirt flow down the drain. Once I was done I walked out getting changed in the closet, I looked at my phone it wouldn't be much longer until Damon got here and I really needed to get off my feet. I sprawled out on the bed, turned on the tv and passed out before the first commercial break.
Damon's pov
Elena hadn't said a word since we found out everyone was ok, she'd been immersed in a book I'd found with Kathrine's real name on it, Petrova. Ric needed to talk to Jenna so they dropped me off first, I gave him a nod as I closed the door and headed up the driveway. Once I got inside and noticed Alexis wasn't in the living room, I stopped, I could hear the tv from my room. I opened the door and immediately saw her curled up on the bed, Stefan had told me she'd gotten hurt but now seeing the extent of it I felt terrible for not being there or for not dragging her to Duke with us so I could keep an eye on her. I laid down on the bed next to her, I guess the shift in the mattress was enough to wake her up because she shot up and gasped grabbing her side. I watched as she scrunched her face up laying back down, "You scared me."
"Im sorry." I couldn't take my eyes off of her she looked so tired, "Stef said you were hurt but he downplayed it a lot."
"I'm fine." She said as she rolled towards me making the same pained face and sucking air though her teeth.
"Yeah sounds like it." I pulled up her shirt enough to see the bruise, "3 broke ribs?"
"Feels like 100."
"Sit up." I reached out to help once I'd gotten her up against the pillow I bit into my wrist, she took it with no protest, leaning her head back once she'd finished. I watched the bite on her arm closer then any other injury but it healed just as fast as everything else. "Well let's be thankful tonight you weren't a vampire."
"Yeah Stefan told me about the bites." She said lifting her head up, "I'm sorry." She said as she hugged her knees to her chest.
"For?" I asked genuinely curious since she was mad at me.
"Being an ass, I just I have a hard time dealing with this whole no memories thing and you compelling me and then making forget you compelled me it was just the straw that broke a very tired camels back." She sighed and continued, "You were just trying to help, in your own weird way. I was pretty sure that wolf was going to kill me tonight and all I could think about was I was you, I mean aside from oh god I don't want to die."
I pulled her so she was sitting in my lap with her head on my chest, "I try to keep myself in check." I ran my fingers through her hair, "Let me just say I was half expecting you to be bald when I got home."
"Yeah, no eighty dollars was not worth it."
"Eighty? Elena said the bet was for fifty."
"It is plus the thirty to cut it all off." She laughed. I heard her stomach growl.
"Time to feed the human?"
"Oh god yes please I'm starving, I've had a quarter bottle of rum and nothing else."