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"Let go of me!" Jade protested as Damon dragged her into the bathroom, moving faster than she thought was possible. She heard Matt coming up the stairs now, going into Vicki's room where she was with Elena and Stefan still, having cleaned the blood from her mouth but there was still blood on the floor. She could hear Matt demanding to know what happened and Stefan lied, saying Vicki and Jade got in a fight, which ended with Vicki punching her sister in the mouth.
"All that panic and fear you have right now," Damon explained, keeping his voice low. "Do you want Matt to have that too?" Jade opened her mouth to protest, but stopped. No, she didn't want Matt to know about this, what was going on with Vicki; at least, not until she knew what was going on herself. "I can explain everything," Damon continued. "I can help your sister, but you have to trust me."
"Seriously?" Jade asked sarcastically. Damon bit into his skin before offering her his wrist. "What the hell do you want me to-"
"This will heal your neck," Damon explained.
"That's so gross," Jade protested.
"Jay," Matt knocked on the door, finding it to be locked.
"Um, just a sec," Jade said and Damon shrugged; she made a face before drinking from his wrist, the wound on her neck healing. Grabbing a tissue, she wiped the rest of her blood away before letting her brother in.
"What happened?" Matt asked her now for her version of the story.
"I don't know what Vicki's on," Jade continued with the lie. "But, um, we got into a fight. She...busted my lip."
"It looks ok now," Matt commented, checking her face.
"Yeah, just...the blood made it look worse than it was," Jade brushed it off and Matt nodded, looking at Damon.
"And you were here to break it up?" Matt asked skeptically. He didn't like how when anything was going wrong with Vicki, Damon showed up to bring her back.
"I just want to help," Damon told him.
"Well, maybe you can help by giving us a ride to the hospital," Matt told him. "I talked to Jeremy, he didn't give Vicki anything."
"I don't think that's a good idea," Damon said now.
"Why?" Matt asked in confusion, looking at Jade for support. If Vicki was a vampire now though, Jade knew the last place she should be was a hospital full of injured patients and blood bags for transfusions.
"She's not sick," Jade said, though that was a pretty far stretch since she didn't know exactly what was going on with her. "She's going to come out of it eventually, I think we should just wait it out."
"Are you serious?" Matt asked, like Jade had to be joking.
"If we go to the hospital with her like this, it's just going to bring more questions our way," Jade told him now. "I don't want you guys to get taken away from me too."
"I know," Matt said sympathetically, knowing the sheriff kept coming by because she had concerns. "It's not your fault though, and if she's sick-"
"You're both my responsibility," Jade stopped him. "So, it is my fault." She shook her head. "I think the best thing right now is to go about business as usual, which includes going into your shift this afternoon."
"Jade, I'm not-"
"Just listen to your sister," Damon told Matt now. Matt stopped, looking between his sister and Damon before shaking his head, grabbing his stuff and leaving the house for work. "It's not your fault," Damon told Jade now.
"It just looks like it's yours," Jade commented, leaving the bathroom to go back to Vicki's room. She was sitting on the bed while Stefan made sure all her blinds and curtains were shut, Elena looking on. "Elena, go home," Jade told her seriously.
"I can help," Elena said, with Stefan having told her a lot since she confronted him about what he was. She didn't want to leave Jade alone with three vampires, though what was she going to do?
"Go home," Jade repeated. Elena looked to Stefan, who nodded for her to go.
"I know that you're upset Jade," Stefan started out.
"Upset?" she interrupted him. "I just found out my ex is a vampire." She motioned at the bed. "My sister somehow is one, and I'm lying to my brother so he won't..." She noticed her hands were shaking. "Freak out like I am."
"We can tell you whatever you want to know," Damon assured her, keeping his distance because he knew she didn't want to be touched. Seeing her in this panic though, he just wanted to hold her and promise it was ok, even if things seemed like they were falling apart.
"How did this happen to her?" Jade demanded, looking at her sister who seemed just as worried, her emotions at an all time high.
"You remember before, when I gave you my blood?" Damon asked and Jade nodded. "It can heal people that are hurt. I..." He sighed. "I tried healing your sister last night, but she died."
"So, you did attack her," Jade stopped him now and he was quiet. "Both times." He nodded silently.
"I didn't know she was your sister," Damon tried to explain that it was an accident. "I didn't know that she was there last night."
"And that makes it ok?" Jade snapped; Damon didn't say anything.
"If you die with vampire blood in your system," Stefan continued for Damon. "You'll come back as one."
"So, let me get this straight," Jade said, pacing the room. "On my watch, my sister died and then came back as a vampire." She bit her lip. "At least all Kelly did was disappear," she muttered.
"It's not your fault," Damon tried to tell her.
"No?" Jade asked. "Who followed me back here and started terrorizing the townspeople?" she asked sarcastically; Damon didn't respond. "And what happens to my sister now?"
"For now, we keep her inside," Stefan said now. "Away from people."
"And out of the sun," Damon added.
"Why?" Vicki jumped in. "You walk in the sun."
"We have rings for that," Damon showed his hand. "I'll work on getting you one. But, for now, no sun."
"Or people," Stefan reiterated.
"Why not?" Vicki complained.
"Did you miss how you almost mauled your sister just now?" Damon asked her. "As much as I hate to admit it, Stefan's right." He looked to his brother, then back at the Donovan sisters. "We have to teach you self control before we let you around anyone." He paused. "Including you Jade."
"You can't keep her away from me," Jade said to him, wanting to make sure her sister was ok after she felt she screwed up so badly.
"Did you miss the near mauling?" he snapped at her now, worried for her safety; she rolled her eyes. "Don't you think it's going to look weird when she doesn't show up to school or work? When Matt sees her hiding around the shadows in the house?"
"How long do I have to stay with you?" Vicki asked.
"Everyone's different," Stefan said, though it would be awhile.
"We'll say you left town," Damon said. "You come stay with us, we'll get you ring, we'll practice..." He trailed off, looking from Vicki to Jade. "What are you thinking right now?"
"That I can't fix this on my own," Jade answered. She didn't want to accept Damon and Stefan's help, but there was no way she could handle Vicki and this new situation on her own.
Stefan left to go see Elena, leaving Damon and Jade alone at the Donovan house. Vicki stayed upstairs in her room, growing more and more restless. Damon could tell that Jade didn't really want him there, they were hardly speaking, but he wasn't leaving her in the house alone with a newly turned vampire. Occasionally she would ask a question, but other than that they were mostly silent.
"When were you born?" Jade asked now, both of them sitting at opposite ends of the couch.
"1840," Damon answered. "I was twenty four when I turned, but-"
"You're over a hundred years old," Jade murmured to herself.
"Mhmm," Damon nodded and Jade rubbed her forehead; and she had thought Mason Lockwood was too old for her.
"How will you get Vicki a ring?" Jade asked.
"I know a witch that will be able to help," Damon assured her and Jade raised her eyebrows.
"Witches are real too?" Jade asked and he nodded. "Ghosts?"
"Afraid so," he nodded.
"Zombies?"
"Not that I know of," Damon half laughed.
"Werewolves?" Jade asked.
"Yeah," Damon nodded. "They're almost extinct though."
"Hmmm," Jade nodded now. "How..." She didn't know how to ask this. "How do you kill a vampire?"
"Ah, I'm not sure I want to tell you that," Damon joked and she gave him a look. "Wooden stake to the heart," he answered and she nodded. "What?" he asked, knowing she wanted to ask something.
"Were you ever going to tell me?" Jade asked now. "Or were you just going to turn me and let me find out that way?"
"No," Damon protested. "I wouldn't do that to you."
"Were you just hoping I would never figure it out?" Jade scoffed now.
"I was going to tell you," Damon told her honestly.
"But, you just decided to disappear instead?" Jade asked with raised eye brows.
"I can't explain it right now," Damon shook his head.
"Try me," Jade challenged him.
"Hey!" Vicki called from the upstairs hall. "Can you two do this later? I'm starving!"
"We'll be right back," Damon said, having left a cooler with a few blood bags in his car.
"We?" Jade asked.
"I'm not leaving you in the house with her," Damon said, to which she rolled her eyes, before getting off the couch to follow him outside. Opening the trunk of his car, she saw that he had a cooler that was filled with blood bags, the same that was used for transfusions where she worked.
"Is this why we've been so short at the hospital?" Jade asked him now, a little annoyed.
"You're going to have to start picking and choosing what you're going to get mad at me for," Damon commented, tucking a bag in the pocket of his jacket before leading Jade back up to the house. Going upstairs, they found the second floor to be completely silent, when Vicki had been pacing for hours. When they got to her room, they saw that it was because she snuck out the bedroom window once the sun went down. Jade couldn't even say she was surprised; she pretty much taught Vicki how to climb out her window, with Vicki's room having the easiest access to get in and out.
"Where do you think she went?" Damon asked.
"I have an idea," Jade said, holding up the plastic costume bag with the picture on the front. A few days before, she and Vicki had gone shopping for Halloween costumes and tonight was the school's Halloween party.
"She picked a vampire costume?" Damon asked.
"Maybe she's psychic too," Jade muttered. "C'mon, we better go get her."
"You're not coming," Damon stopped her in the doorway. "She's restless and hungry, she might not be able to control herself around you." He stopped and thought about it. "Again."
"Well, you'll be there," Jade pointed out. "Besides, what if she comes back and I'm home alone?" She knew that she would be able to get Damon that way. Reluctantly, Damon agreed to let her go to the high school with him to track Vicki down.
Jade and Damon were busy searching the dance for Vicki, though Jade would hide anytime she saw Matt coming and she realized he must have gotten out of work early for this. When Damon questioned her, she said she knew that Matt would worry if he saw her there, and that was the whole reason she was keeping the situation with Vicki from him. Damon told her that she was a good sister, but she wasn't so convinced. That was when Damon thought he heard something outside, ordering Jade to stay there before he sped off unnoticed. Jade was never good at listening though and ran off in that direction until she was close enough to hear screaming coming from behind the school.
Running outside, she saw what had happened. Vicki must have lost control again, attacking Jeremy and Elena. She wasn't sure in what order it happened, but Elena was holding her neck now and there was blood on her costume. Damon had Vicki around her waist, throwing her back away from them. Speeding over before Vicki could react, he snapped her neck and she fell to the ground.
"You killed her!" Jeremy was accusing.
"She'll be back," Damon informed him, marching over to where his brother stood. "This," he snapped, snatching the wooden stake out of Stefan's hand before throwing it far to the side. "Would have killed her."
"She attacked Jeremy and Elena," Stefan said like it was obvious, as if there was no other choice.
"Then do what I did!" Damon yelled at him. "She's still Jade's sister." He went over and scooped up Vicki's still limp body. "I'm not gonna stop helping her because there's one slip up." He looked his brother over. "If that was the case, I would have staked you decades ago."
"Stop," Jade jumped in now, noticed for the first time after all the chaos.
"I can take her to our house," Damon said, reminding her of the initial plan. "Start teaching her in the morning."
"I have to find Matt," Jade was shaking her head, walking away.
"Jade," Damon called after her.
"Take her, please," Jade told him. "Just let me deal with Matt." Jade was hardly able to handle the things happening around her, the day's events taking it's toll. She was crazy to think things could be simple like they were that afternoon; that was only the case if Vicki was going to be locked up forever, or worse killed. Jade went back into the school to track down her brother, finding him out in front of the high school, talking to Bonnie and Tyler. Walking up to him, she hadn't noticed that she started crying.
"Whoa, Jade," Matt said, walking away from his friends who looked on with concern. "What's going on, are you ok?"
"Vicki ran away," Jade lied, tears sliding down her cheeks.
"What?" Matt asked worriedly.
"She just took off," Jade wiped at her eyes. "It's my fault, everything with her, it's my fault."
"Hey, no it's not," Matt promised, hugging her. He had no idea what happened, the weight that Jade felt. She felt like she should have known about Damon, when really there was no way for her to. She was responsible for taking care of Vicki though, and look what happened to her. "Vicki's responsible for Vicki," Matt assured her, hugging her tight. "She'll be back by the end of the week, you'll see," he continued. "She never disappears for long."
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