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).

Elena woke, although she didn't initially open her eyes, to the most wonderful feeling of sensual wet kisses being placed down her throat, interspersed with the occasional ear nibble, a strong arm around her waist, pulling her into a solid wall of muscle and something very hard and persistent poking in her back. The combination of sensations sent heat pooling to her groin as she knew there could only be one culprit.

"Morning sunshine." Damon whispered into Elena's ear, causing her to moan with pleasure as he bean drawing circles around her hips, each one lower than the last.

"Damon." Elena breathed, as Damon cupped her core. Elena lifted her leg to allow Damon's hand greater access as he gently began circling her clit before slipping his finger into her folds and probing her entrance.

"You're so wet already." he whispered back, huskily, as Elena turned her head and snaked her arm behind her back and around the nape of Damon's neck, grabbing him by the scruff of his hair and pulling him into kiss her.

Elena pulled away from their kiss. "You do that to me." she whispered seductively as she reached behind and gently took hold of Damon's length and began pumping it, before maneuvering him so he was gliding against the slickness of her entrance from his position behind her. Hissing with pleasure, Damon suddenly flipped Elena over so she was on her back, her legs over his shoulders with his head between her legs.

"I'm gonna make you come so fucking hard, all of Mystic Falls can hear you scream my name." he growled as blew open her folds and circled his tongue around her entrance, then slowly up her labia and teasing her nub. "God you taste better than human blood straight from the vein." he murmured.

A few weeks ago that comment would have disgusted Elena, instead now it sent heat straight to her core. Damon inserted two fingers, began pumping them, whilst he expertly lathered his tongue around her labia and circled her nub with his other thumb. The triple sensation caused Elena to buck her hips as it became almost too much. The burning sensation she'd become so familiar with over the last few weeks went straight through her core as she shattered into a million pieces. Not prepared to give Elena time to recover from her earth shattering orgasm, Damon flipped her on her stomach and lay her flat to the bed as he pressed his weight on top of her.

"You'll like this." he whispered in her ear, Elena could practically hear the smirk in his voice as she turned her head to the side, allowing Damon to sweep her hair out of the way so they could lie cheek to cheek. Damon inserted himself from behind causing Elena to almost immediately orgasm once more at the sensation of his shaft entering her.

Damon wasn't joking when he said she'd like the position, although it was slightly awkward and didn't allow for vigorous thrusting, the angle more than made up for it. Heat began pooling up in Elena's stomach, she knew she was close, but she wanted more, she wanted to feel Damon's power, she wanted his teeth inside her too.

"Bite me." she panted. "I need your fangs inside me too." she begged.

"You want to do this now?" he asked.

"It might be our last chance." Elena said sadly.

"Well fuck if I'm not going to make sure we do this right." he said as he pulled out of her, picked her up and carried her to the the edge of the bed.

"What are you doing?" Elena asked quizzically.

"You'll see." Damon told her as he took the large mirror and place it strategically opposite where Elena was sat, before he sat next to her and urged her to stand up. "Come here." he demanded as he turned her to face the mirror and pulled her backwards so she was straddling him, before placing his hands on her hips and gradually sliding her down onto his length so his chest was pressed up against her back.

Damon tucked Elena's hair to one side, exposing her neck so they could both be visible through the mirror. With one hand he began playing with her nub as she gently circled her hips whilst he thrust up inside of her. Once again, Elena felt the heat of an impending orgasm building up inside her, waiting to rip her to pieces. But Elena wanted him to bite her first so she leaned back against him, giving Damon the perfect angle to enable him to bite into her jugular. Elena saw his the veins around his eyes emerge from his face and his fangs elongate. Damon licked a line up her neck, preparing her for what he was about to do, she shivered with excitement.

Suddenly Damon dropped his head and his teeth pierced her skin. Initially there was a sharp scratch before she felt the first pull and it was incredible. Her orgasm was no longer concentrated in her core, there was heat in every vein in her body, albeit not as intense, but if it were she'd have been immediately unconscious. Damon allowed a little blood to dribble from the wound in her neck, the scarlet droplet running down her chest and over her breast. The sight of the blood triggered Elena's eyes to tingle and the sensual feeling of her fangs elongating. As soon as Damon saw this through the mirror he moved the arm that was not busy playing with her nub, around her body, he held out his wrist and offered it to her, nodding as best as he could, as if telling her to bite him, Elena didn't need to be told twice.

As soon as Elena bit into Damon's wrist, her pleasure became intensified, Damon moaned from behind as she began to suck on the delicious nectar coming from Damon's veins. The sight of them in the mirror, her circulating her hips, grinding on top of Damon's shaft, him playing with her nub and them both fully vamped out and fangs diving deep into each others bodies, with the mere trace of blood flowing down her body was too much and the convulsing started. First it began in her core before beginning to work it's way all around her body. Elena suddenly got and urge to tell Damon how much and how long she'd loved him, to reassure him that he had been the one for a long time, but her mouth was lost in taking his blood and suddenly everything went dark and the sensation stopped.

Elena managed to open her eyes to try focus on what was happening, but everything was still dark. Had Damon taken too much blood? She wondered. Her question wasn't answered conclusively even when her vision did start to clear. Elena was in Stefan's bedroom, watching herself getting ready, the other her was dressed in a short white summer dress, which Elena recognized as the one she'd worn on her eighteenth birthday. Elena watched herself standing in front of the mirror, whilst Damon was leaning on the door frame behind the other her in a dark blue shirt, his hair a little longer, looking, as usual, like an Adonis.

"Don't worry I'm not gonna lose it. At least not before the cake." Elena heard herself say and the vision of her turned to Damon.

"What are we doing here?" Elena heard Damon's voice whisper in her ear as she felt his arms loop around her waist. Looking down she could see she was wearing exactly the same dress as the vision of herself in front of her and the arms around her middle were covered in the same blue shirt as the Damon in front of her.

"It's your party, you can cry if you want to." said the other Damon as he picked up the picture of Stefan and Elena before walking to her other self. "Ah, Stefan. Such a pack rat." he complained.

"When Rebekah compelled me, she forced me to remember the moment when I first fell in love with you." Elena whispered as she turned to look at Damon behind her who looked at her wide eyed with shock.

"I got you something. I know I promised not to buy you anything so don't worry. I didn't pay for it." Elena heard the other Damon say in the background.

"You stole it?" Elena said as Damon stopped in front of her, they were just inches apart.

"This is when you fell in love with me?" Damon whispered in her ear as Elena nodded, turning back to continue watching the scene unfold in front of them as she rested her head in the crook of her Damon's neck.

"No!" he said indignantly as he held up a little box. "Found it." he opened the box which contained Elena's necklace which Stefan had given to her.

"My necklace. I thought I'd never see it again." her other self gasped.

"All this time?" Damon asked in surprise.

"Alaric found it in his loft, thought you'd be happy to have it back." Damon from the vision told Elena.

"I am happy, Thank you." the other Elena said.

"Yeah." Elena admitted. "I just never realized. I guess I didn't truly understand what real love actually felt like until I found you." she smiled.

"You're welcome." both Damon's said simultaneously causing Elena to laugh.

"Can you?" Elena in the vision asked.

"Absolutely." the other Damon replied as they watched the other Elena turn around, as Damon put the necklace on her whilst she pulled up her hair. He fastened the necklace and Elena turned around as the other Damon offered his arm to her.

"Shall we?" he asked as Elena took his arm and they walked out of Stefan's room.

Elena turned to face Damon and cupped his face in her hands. "I love you." she said as she closed her eyes and kissed him on the lips. Suddenly Elena felt the familiar build up to an orgasm, she opened her eyes and they were back in Damon's room, both staring at each other in the mirror in adoration, their faces no longer vamped out, nor were they taking blood from each other. Damon quickly pulled her off of him and gently threw her backwards onto the bed as he jumped on top if her, hovering for a moment, blood at the corner of his mouth making him look delectable. He stared at her in wonder for a moment before he pushed his length inside her and began kissing her.

Their thrusts became more passionate, almost violent, yet there was a hidden tenderness. They'd just shared an incredibly intimate moment, which nothing could compare and it was sending them both into a sexual frenzy of need, want and desire. Elena wrapped her legs around his waist and cupped his ass, digging her nails in causing him to hiss.

"Elena...yes...fuck...yes..." he panted.

"Damon...more..." Elena cried as her insides suddenly felt on fire. "I'm gonna come soon." she panted as Damon reached down and began circling her clit with his talented fingers. No sooner as he'd touched her, her orgasm ripped through her body. She went rigid and her back arched. "Fuck...Damon..." she tried to scream but no noise came from her mouth as wave after wave of white hot spasms continued to pass through her core. Her orgasm must have triggered Damon's as she saw his face scrunch up.

"Fuck...Elena..." he cried as he thrust deeply into her before he stilled and shuddered, as she felt his hot seed spill inside her, before her own contractions subsided, and he collapsed on top of her in the way she loved whilst his member softened.

After a minute of recovering, Damon finally pulled himself out of Elena and pushed himself into a sitting position against the headboard, as Elena turned to look up at him before she scuttled between his legs and lay her back against his naked chest whilst he wrapped his arms around her waist.

"I can't believe it happened so long ago." he said in shock.

"I wanted to wait until the right moment to tell you." she said as she absently laced her fingers through his. "I just didn't know that the blood sharing would conjure up something like that." she sighed. "Did you?" she turned to look up at him, as he shook his head.

"Nope, it's the first time I've done it properly too." he said, as he kissed her on the head. "You couldn't have picked a better time to tell me." he whispered into her ear as he nibbled on her earlobe and growled.

"At least now you know that me becoming a vampire had nothing to do with my feelings for you." she told him. "All it did was give me the confidence to admit to them. So you have no need to ever worry about me going back to Stefan. I want a future with you Damon, I want us for eternity."

"That's what I want too." he mumbled into her ear before sighing. "Which brings us to the subject of the cure."

"Do we have to?" Elena complained.

"I promised Kol." Damon told her. "Don't worry, I've got a plan all worked out."

"Go on." Elena eyed him suspiciously.

"We make everyone think we're searching for the the cure, we lead Kol to it, and if Kol gets to Silas he kills him and saves the planet, or he fails, then we get the cure, Silas kills Kol and have to deal with Silas. I guess that's kind of a win win." he said nonchalantly.

"And how do we do that?" Elena asked skeptically.

"We get Bonnie to lock Klaus away with one of her magic spells, we dagger Kol to make everyone think we're getting him out of the way, but as soon as we leave, Jeremy removes the dagger and he follows us with the picture of the map that Jeremy drew and the sword. We get Kol to tell us where Connor is and that becomes our leverage." Damon explained.

"And Jeremy?" Elena asked.

"As soon as the dagger is out of Kol, he stays with Matt. I don't want him near Klaus until we're back." Damon told her. "I say we get showered, you go home whilst I wait for the prodigal brother to return, see if I can find out what he's up to and where he was last night. In the meantime I want you to arrange a meeting with me, you and Kol this afternoon at the motel on the outskirts of town." Damon told her.

"And after we meet Kol?" Elena asked.

"It's a surprise." Damon kissed her neck. "C'mon, shower time." he demanded as they both got up and made their way into the bathroom.

Stefan woke up, initially confused, not recognizing his surrounding, until he noticed a woman's arm wrapped around him, then he remembered the previous night of crazy sex with Rebekah. As much fun as it had been, he wasn't proud of himself, he wasn't like Damon, prone to one night stands, however it was the first time since, well Rebekah, that he'd been able to enjoy sex in it's pure vampire, animalistic form. It certainly wasn't something he'd be willing to explore with Elena, especially once she was human again, Elena wasn't exactly the adventurous type in bed, but he didn't care, sex and love were not the same thing, anyway, he hoped to be taking the cure himself, he needed this one last blow out. Knowing people would be wondering where he was, he decided that he'd leave and talk it over with Rebekah the later, they'd agreed no strings, so she'd understand. He slowly removed her arm, gets out of the bed and quickly put his on clothes at vamp speed, he picked up his jacket put it as he opened the door to try and sneak out, however Klaus was standing on the other side with a huge smile on his face.

"Leaving so soon?" Klaus asked, his voice waking Rebekah as he walked in, whilst Rebekah angrily got out of bed and put her robe on.

"This is my place, Nik, and I don't appreciate you invading my privacy like some kind of creeping Tom." Rebekah snapped at him.

"Well, I apologize for breaking up this sordid little tryst, but I do have some urgent business. Or have you forgotten – our paranoid brother Kol is running around with the white oak stake and homicide on the brain?" Klaus asked, still highly amused with his discovery.

"He tried to kill me last night. I didn't forget." Rebekah told him.

"Yes, well, unfortunately he seems to have absconded with my set of daggers." Klaus's face dropped, all trace of amusement gone.

"Oh, poor Nik. How ever will you get your way without your precious daggers?" Rebekah said sarcastically. "They were so handy when you wanted to end a conversation with one of us!"

"Kol's irrational fear of Silas has pushed him over the edge. We need to put him down before he does any more damage." Klaus warned her. "Now, I know you have the last dagger, and I know you have some white ash, so hand it over."

"Mhm, and leave myself unprotected?" Rebekah practically laughed in his face. "You can file that request under 'no chance in hell.' Be gone by the time I have showered. Lurkers aren't welcome here." Rebekah waltzed of into the bathroom for a shower.

"I need that dagger, Stefan. Talk some sense into her." Klaus whispered to Stefan.

"Why don't you talk some sense into her? I'm headed home." Stefan cocked his head before walking out of the door.

"Wait Stefan." Klaus called as Stefan turned to listen. "If you let Kol roam free, as a Bennett witch is the key to unlocking the spell to release the cure, then young Bonnie won't live to graduate, and we can kiss the cure goodbye. But if you help me dagger Kol, Bonnie will live, and we'll all be on our merry way to a human Elena." Klaus suggested.

"Hmm." Stefan said. "I'll think about it." and with that he walked out of the room and headed home.

As soon as Elena got home she checked the motel had plenty of rooms available before asking Jeremy to borrow his phone as he had Kol's number. She sat on her bed and waited as Kol answered after five rings.

"Jeremy Gilbert. Nice to see I'm still on your speed dial, mate. Hey, you want to meet up at the batting cages in Denver?" Kol said as he answered the phone.

"Actually, it's Elena Gilbert." Elena told him.

"What a treat. How can I help?" he asked.

"I need to talk to you...in person." Elena whispered. "It's about Silas."

"You want to talk about Silas?" Kol sounded as if he couldn't believe what he was hearing.

"Damon wants all three of us to meet at the motel on the outskirts of town at one. Is that good for you?" she asked.

"I guess it is. Why is he not calling me himself?" he asked.

"He's spying on Stefan." she admitted. "I've been left to call you and to book a room for us all."

"That sounds a little kinky darling." Elena heard Kol sneer. "Although I suspect that's not quite your thing, mind you, I do believe your boyfriend has indulged in the occasional threesome. Yes I do believe my little sister was rather pissed off about that little stunt he pulled." he added as Elena winced at his sly comment.

"We're just meeting up to go over the plan Kol." Elena said through gritted teeth.

"Fine." Kol replied. "Pity, you might enjoy things differently now you're a vampire."

"Look, are you fine to meet at one?" Elena asked frustrated.

"Yes, yes." Kol sighed. "I'll be there. Just text me the room number." he said and with that he hung up.

After their little blood sharing experience, Damon and Elena had had sex in the shower before she got ready and left. This put Damon in an excellent mood for the day. However, as good as the sex was, nothing could compare to the revelation of when she fell in love with him. This gave Damon a new found sense of confidence in his relationship with Elena. He was now certain that even if someone shoved the cure down her throat, she wouldn't leave him. The other thing that had occurred to him was that if they found the cure, there was no reason for it to have to be taken right now. Maybe they could spend five hundred years roaming the earth, then decide to settle down, become human and have a family. He didn't want to discuss this with Elena as he didn't know what was going to happen when they reached the cure. He was cool with it either way, and as long as Elena was happy, he was happy.

Damon was sat in front of the fire in the parlor, finishing off his morning glass of blood when he heard a noise outside, signaling Stefan's return. Damon got up and headed to the wet bar as he Stefan walked in through the front door.

"Morning Stefan." Damon called out. "Where were you last night?" he asked as he poured himself a drink. Stefan glanced up and ignored him prompting Damon to sigh dramatically. "Fine, be like that, but we really do need to talk about the cure."

"What's there to talk about? Stefan asked.

"Finally. He speaks." Damon smirked. "I thought you wanted Elena to be human again?" Damon said.

"And I thought you didn't." Stefan raised a suspicious eyebrow.

"Like I keep saying, I'm fine with her either way brother. What matters to me is what she's happy with." Damon explained.

"So she's not happy with being a vampire huh?" Stefan asked. "You not rocking her world hard enough with your vampire sex?" he said sarcastically as Damon rushed over to him.

"I'm not rocking her world." Damon sneered. "We're setting the world on fire." he glanced Stefan up and down before he smiled. "Not that it's any of your business." he added as Stefan suddenly punched him so hard Damon went flying into bookshelves. Stefan vamp-sped over to Damon before he had chance to get up and grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and punched him again. Damon decided to let Stefan get it out of his system, he needed to get him on side, and if Stefan beating the shit out of him was going to help, then Damon didn't mind taking one for the team. It's not like it actually hurt, as long as Stefan didn't stake him.

"Ahem." a voice was heard in the doorway, prompting Stefan to stop punching and both brothers to look towards the owner of the voice, who turned out to be Klaus.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Damon asked as Stefan let go of him before he got to his feet, straightening himself up..

"Hello, mate." Klaus grinned at Damon before turning to look at his brother. "Stefan" he said nodding and smiled as Damon walked back over to the wet bar.

"I thought the mark was finished." Damon said, annoyed at the intrusion.

"Oh it is." Klaus smiled, cocking his head. "I'm here to see Stefan."

"Oh." Damon replied and began filling his glass with whiskey.

"What was that all about?" Klaus asked. "Not like you two to fight over anything." he said sarcastically.

"Not that it's any of your business, but he's still pissed at me for sleeping with Elena." Damon explained.

"You sure about that? 'Cause I saw him trying to sneak out of Rebekah's bed this morning, which would suggest to me that he's moved on." Klaus smirked, upon being outed, Stefan closed his eyes, grimaced and sighed.

Damon laughed as he turned to face Stefan. "Well, well. Looks like my brother ripped out a page of my revenge-sex handbook."

"Well, why don't you two enjoy a little, uh, villain bonding time?" Stefan asked as he turned to leave to go anywhere but be around Damon and his snarky comments.

"Oh don't mind me, I'm off to see Elena." Damon announced as he gulped down his glass of whiskey, and turned to leave the house.

"You do that." Stefan said as Damon walked outside, however he waited next to his car, listening to hear what Klaus wanted with Stefan.

"I'll let you know when I get the dagger from Rebekah." Damon heard Stefan say quietly to Klaus.

"Good. Well best hurry along then mate." he heard Klaus's voice say. "No time like the present. Tick tock." Realizing he might get caught, Damon got into his car to head out to Elena's. He'd heard everything he needed to hear and it would perfectly set everything in motion.

Whilst Elena waited for Damon to arrive, she decided to call Bonnie and tidy up.

"Where are you?" Elena asked.

"I told Caroline that I'd take her place at decade dance prep, but none of the rest of you showed." Bonnie complained.

"I know, I'm sorry. I had to take Jer to see Klaus." Elena lied.

"It's okay. Do you think Caroline will notice if there's only 89 red balloons?" Bonnie asked.

"Actually, probably yes." Elena laughed as she put her hand under the water to rinse a cup, when all of a sudden her hand felt like it was burning. Elena gasped and dropped her phone.

"Elena!" Bonnie cried out over the other end as Elena picked up her phone back up.

"Sorry." Elena

"What happened?" Bonnie

"I don't know. There's something in the water. I think it's vervain." Elena said confused as she heard Damon walk in. "Look Bonnie, Damon's here. I gotta go. I'll talk to you later." she added as they hung up.

"You ready to go?" Damon asked.

The meeting place where Damon and Elena had arranged to talk with Kol was the same motel on the outskirts of town where Anna and Ben had once brought Elena and Bonnie after kidnapping them to help free Pearl from the tomb. Fortunately it wasn't the same room, so it didn't bring back bad memories for Elena. On the contrary, it reminded Elena of the last time she and Damon were in a motel together. They'd been there for about five minutes before there was a knock on the door. Damon opened the door and Kol was stood on the other side.

"Kol." he said nodding for Kol to come in, before scanning the area outside to make sure nobody was watching.

"Damon Salvatore, Elena Gilbert. Pleasure." Kol smiled, cocking his head before turning to Damon. "Don't worry, I wasn't followed." Damon closed the door and walked over to the table.

"Whiskey?" Damon asked.

"Do you have any gin?" Kol asked.

"Nope. Only whiskey." Damon said.

"Fine, it'll have to do." Kol answered as Elena gestured for him to sit down on one of the chairs.

"Please tell us about Silas." she asked.

"Why do you want to talk about Silas?" Kol asked.

"Nobody else seems to think Silas exists, so why do you? And why don't you want to raise him?" Elena asked

"I used to run with some witches. Africa in the fourteenth century, Haiti in the seventeenth century, New Orleans in the nineteen hundreds." Kol told them "They all knew about Silas, that he needed to stay buried. I actually hold witches in high esteem."

"Yeah, but why Silas? Why are you so afraid of him?" Elena asked.

"They said if Silas rises, he'll unleash hell on Earth. I happen to like Earth just the way it is." Kol explained.

"That's pretty biblical." Damon muttered.

"Well, that's the other problem with people today...they've lost faith. And in that loss, they no longer know who they should fear." Kol said. "The witches say he'll raise all dead supernatural beings, friend or foe. As you can imagine that would leave a lot of dead supernatural beings roaming the earth."

"And I suspect a good few of them will be really pissed and have a few vendetta's out for you." Damon raised an eyebrow.

"Am I alone in that?" Kol asked. "How many supernatural beings have you killed over the years who would be happy to get their revenge?"

"Duly noted." Damon shrugged and glanced at Elena.

"Nobody is going to believe you because they want the cure." Elena said.

"Rebekah wants it to have a human life." Kol added. "But Elena, can I ask you a question?" What do you want?"

"Why do you even need to ask?" Elena asked.

"It just seems odd that you'd be so willing to give up something you want so much." Kol frowned.

"You've been talking to the wrong people." Damon growled. "Listen to what Elena says about wanting to be human and not the people who actually want her to be human."

"Go on, I'm listening." Kol offered.

"Klaus wants to make me human again so I can be his personal hybrid making blood bag." Elena said scornfully. "Stefan wants to fix me so that I'll love him again, which won't happen." she scoffed as Damon winced. "I admit, the thought of being human again is appealing, but it's not worth the cost, both of my freedom and to raising Silas." she admitted. "Plus I'm happier than I have been ever since my parents died. Why would I give that up?" she added.

"Klaus wants her to marry a nice boy and pump out some more Petrova doppelgänger babies." Damon grimaced.

"And?" Kol asked confused.

"I don't want to marry some random guy just to have kids, I love Damon." Elena replied as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Wouldn't you take the cure?" Kol asked turning to Damon. "You know, to help her 'pump out' the little Petrova doppelgangers."

"That's not me." Damon said. "You know, I used to miss being human once, but now, I can't think of anything more miserable on Earth." he complained. "Anyways, even if I were human and had kids, I wouldn't want Klaus anywhere near them. The only way I can protect any future offspring would be to not have any in the first place. It's my brother who wants to be human and have that, he clearly isn't thinking straight."

"Speaking of Stefan, have you spoken to him yet?" Kol asked as Damon was pouring a drink.

"I have." Damon told him. "Apparently Klaus has tasked him with stealing the dagger from Rebekah, I'm guessing it's so that he get you out of the way."

"That's not going to happen." Kol said.

"I think it should." Damon smiled.

"I thought we were a team." Kol growled standing up.

"Wait Kol." Elena walked up to the Original and put her hand on his chest. "Damon has a plan."

"And why should I trust you?" Kol asked angrily.

"Just listen to the plan and you'll understand." Elena reassured him as Kol sighed and sat back down.

"Go on." Kol urged them.

"My idea is to get Klaus out of the race." Damon explained. "Stefan is trying to get the dagger from Rebekah, let him. We'll dagger you at Elena's, then lure Klaus over to collect your body, don't worry, we'll compel Jeremy to remove the dagger as soon as we've left, in front of you if you want." Damon reassured Kol. "We'll get Bonnie to trap Klaus in Elena's house when he comes to collect you, but instead we'll take you to the boarding house basement, as soon as we leave Jeremy will undagger you."

"And why shouldn't I just compel someone to kill the hunter?" Kol asked.

"Because Jeremy will become a hunter." Elena told him. "Connor said he was a potential."

"Then I kill Jeremy." Kol smiled.

"Then another hunter turns up with someone like Professor Creepy without your knowledge and raises Silas. You can't control it." Elena protested.

"So what are you suggesting?" Kol asked.

"Kill Silas!" Damon grinned.

"And how do you plan on doing that?" Kol asked looking puzzled.

"According to this Professor guy, the was cure made for Silas to take, and once he took it, he'd become mortal, which I presume means he's able to be killed." Damon said.

"That's what the legends say." Kol agreed.

"I think that most normal vampires would struggle to feed the cure to an immortal like Silas." Damon said.

"But you're an Original vampire, and you're stronger than we are." Elena pleaded, feeding Kol's vanity.

"The idea is that we go to wherever Silas is, you follow us and when we get there, we raise Silas, and you grab the cure and feed it to him, then we kill him." Damon grinned.

"You make it sound so simple." Kol said, alternating his glance between Damon and Elena. "Silas is a very powerful witch."

"But nobody will know you're there." Elena insisted. "You can take them by surprise. Silas can't kill you.

"Okay, say for the time being I agree, how do you plan on setting this up and how can I be certain to follow you?" Kol asked.

"You know where Klaus is keeping Connor?" Damon asked as Kol nodded in response. "We have to make this all believable. Elena is going to say she wants to take the cure, to prove we are serious, we'll have Connor's location. By taking both you and Klaus out of the equation, nobody will question our motives." he explained. "Klaus has a drawing of the map, I guess you could even head out to see Connor before we dagger you and take pictures of the tattoo." Kol raised an eyebrow at this suggestion, but continued to stay quiet. "You'll have the sword and map to decipher so you can follow us. Jeremy will wait until we leave and remove the dagger almost immediately. That way you'll be a couple of hours behind. At the pace you go, you'll probably get there before we do." Damon smiled. "But the main thing is that we have to make it believable." he insisted.

"There's vervain in the water supply." Elena suddenly remembered. "What if Jeremy's drank some?" she asked.

"Go call him." Damon instructed her. "Make sure he hasn't and doesn't."

"Okay, I'll go outside and call him while you two finish here." Elena said as she went outside to call Jeremy.

"To make it believable..." Damon whispered to Kol. "I need you to threaten Bonnie."

"Why?" Kol asked.

"She doesn't trust me, but she knows that I'll help her for Elena. We need to make her believe that you, Elena and I are not on the same side. There's no way Bonnie would think we'd let you threaten her if we were working with you." Damon explained as Kol nodded in understanding. "Can you do that? Because she will give you a headache." he warned.

"As to be expected." Kol said. "Where is she?" he asked.

"At the school." Damon told him.

"That's fine, I'll get onto that." Kol said.

"I'll need Connor's details. Klaus compelled me to forget the location." Damon asked.

"Pastor Young's farm." Kol told him as Damon suddenly began texting. "Who are you texting?" he asked suspiciously.

"Me!" Damon exclaimed as his phone chimed signaling a text message. "Klaus compelled me to forget the location and not tell anyone else. But as with every compulsion, there's always a loophole, nothing to stop me telling myself." he smirked.

"How do you plan on keeping Connor from killing you?" Kol asked.

"Good old fashioned medicine." Damon grinned. "I have a friendly doctor who owes me a few favors. I reckon tranquilizers should do the trick. I'll make sure I've got enough to keep him down for a month. I suspect it'll be harder to give him sweet dreams than your average Joe."

"So all we need to do is wait here and see if Jeremy can be compelled." Kol said.

Elena had gone outside to call Jeremy leaving Damon to explain the rest of their plan to Kol. She knew she needed to be quick as every minute that passed, Jeremy could have ingested the vervain water. Their plan hinged upon being able to compel Jeremy, she knew he'd help because his dealings with the other side meant he would be dubious about releasing every dead supernatural being into the world. Under normal circumstances, so would Bonnie, but she was too much under the control of Professor Shane to talk rational sense into her. Elena dialed Jeremy's number, he answered after two rings.

"Lena? What's up?" he asked.

"Jer, have you drank anything today?" she asked.

"Just orange juice and coke." he told her. "Why?"

"Under no circumstances can you drink anything else until we see you." Elena said. "If you want water, just drink the bottled stuff. No coffee or tea or hot drinks." she warned him.

"What's going on Lena?" Jeremy asked.

"Just trust me on this will you?" she asked. "I'll explain everything later." she told him before hanging up and heading back into the motel room.

"What did he say?" Damon asked as Elena walked back into the room.

"He's not touched any of the water today. No hot drinks or anything." she told them.

"Good!" Kol said as he stood up. "So will you call me later when you are ready to dagger me?" Kol grimaced.

"Stefan needs to get the dagger from Rebekah first." Damon told him. "You need to have a chat with Bonnie and get the details of Connor's tattoo, and we'll set everything up on our side."

"Your plan sounds good with the duplicity part, but what about the rest?" Kol asked.

"That's for you to plan. We're just going along for the ride. We can slow them down a little, I can threaten Professor Creepy if you want." Damon grinned.

"But you still haven't given me one good reason to trust you." Kol said.

"If Elena and I go and leave you in the basement to get the cure, and take it, then Klaus will undoubtedly undagger you just to kill us." Damon told him.

"True, but Klaus will want to kill you for stopping him getting the cure himself?" Kol asked.

"No he won't." Damon explained. "As long as you tell him you don't know who removed the dagger, he'll never know who was behind it. Klaus will blame you, but he can't dagger you and I'm guessing he won't kill you with the white oak stake. You're still his brother."

"He doesn't have the white oak stake." Kol told him. "I do."

"Even better." Damon grinned. "But I suspect that Klaus might want the cure destroyed after he plans on giving it to Elena, so we're doing him a favor."

"Fine." Kol said. "I'm trusting you. Don't make me regret it."

"You've got nothing to worry about." Damon smiled. "We both want rid of this cure as much as you do." he looked to Elena who nodded and smiled back, as Kol left the room.

"What was that about him needing talking to Bonnie?" Elena asked as Kol closed the door.

"Do you trust me?" Damon asked.

"Of course I trust you." Elena replied.

"Well then you've got nothing to worry about." he reassured her. "So, what do you feel like doing in the meantime?" he asked suggestively.

"What did you have in mind?" Elena looked at Damon suspiciously.

"Maybe continue where we left off in Denver?" he asked. "Without Jeremy of course." he winked as Elena smiled.

Currently this story is due to finish at the end of season 4. Should anyone wish for me to continue it into season 5 and re-write that season, I will need to know if there is enough of a demand for it. Let me know either by PM or in a review if you wish for me to carry on.

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Mandz