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Damon arrived at Mystic Falls General Hospital on business. He wanted to check on Meredith to make sure there was no fall out from Alaric's confession, the clean up of compelling everyone involved had been a bitch and had kept him occupied whilst Elena had been busy trying to play human with Stefan after she first transitioned. Fortunately he'd made sure everyone was back in the dark once more before Elena had decided to choose him, which was good, otherwise it would have been interrupting his and Elena's 'Getting to know you' time, which Damon figured was going to last at least another two hundred years.
Damon found what, or rather who he was looking for writing some note at the reception desk at the far end of the hallway. Sneaking up to Meredith from behind, Damon put his hands over both eyes.
"Hows my favorite sexy psycho doctor?" he asked jokingly as Meredith pushed his hands away from her face in annoyance as if she were squatting a fly, before turning round.
"Damon!" she said through gritted teeth.
"That's me." Damon replied offering her his biggest grin.
"What do you want?" she snapped, glaring at him, prompting Damon to pout in protest.
"What makes you think I want anything?" he asked innocently. "Maybe I was just passing through and thought I'd pay my favorite doctor a visit and say hi." he added, however Dr Fell just folded her arms and raised an eyebrow in suspicion, whilst continuing to simply glare at Damon. "Fine you got me." he eventually said, rolling his eyes. "I need a favor." he admitted, looking a little sheepish.
"Come with me." Meredith said as she walked down the hallway, whilst Damon followed, before leading him into an office. "We can talk in here." she said as she made a quick check to see if anyone was following before she closed the door behind them. "Okay, so what do you need?" she finally asked.
"We need to be able to stop the hunter from hunting whilst we take him on a little vacation." Damon explained. "Something to help him sleep like a baby. We don't want him getting car sick." he winked.
"You want sedatives?" Meredith asked.
"Yeah, like the ones you gave Ric." Damon gulped. It was still painful just to say his name. "But I suspect he might be harder to take down. We're hoping Bonnie can put a protection spell on me so I can get close enough to inject him." he explained.
"Okay, fine." Meredith sighed walking over to the door. "You wait here and I'll go get something." she added leaving Damon to wait for her to return.
Elena was stood alone in the kitchen pouring herself a mug of coffee, whilst Jeremy was playing some combat game on the 'PlayStation' in the living room when there was a knock at the front door.
"Elena, it's me." Stefan said from the other side.
"Come in." she replied as he opened the door, walked in and headed over towards her. "Want one?" she offered, holding out her cup to him. "It's fresh."
"No I'm fine." he replied, taking out the dagger and the small jar of white oak ash the inside of his 'Top Gun' style leather jacket. "Here!" he offered, handing them over to her. "What now?" he asked.
"Bonnie has already spelled the house." Elena told him. "We just need to get Kol to come here and invite him in." she explained. "He'll go down with a headache as soon as he walks in and that means Jeremy can dagger him."
"Do you need me to stay?" Stefan asked.
"Probably a good idea." Elena smiled. "We could probably use an extra pair of hands, just in case we need to hold Kol for Jer to get a clean shot." she told him as Stefan nodded at her explanation. "Also, we need you to let Klaus know, and it's best if you've witnessed it first hand. You know what he can be like." she said.
"Why can't Damon do it?" Stefan asked.
"Damon has gone to get some sedatives from Meredith." Elena told him. "He's planning on taking Connor tonight."
Stefan frowned. "How does he even know where Connor is?" he asked.
"All Damon knows is that he texted himself a message with details of Connor's whereabouts and he has some blank holes in his memory." Elena sighed.
"He thinks Klaus compelled him?" Stefan asked as Elena nodded in response. "Good thinking by my brother, if Klaus says don't tell anyone else, I guess it doesn't stop you from telling yourself." he mused. "So how did he manage to tell you about it?" he looked at her confused.
"He didn't." Elena explained. "He just asked me to read through all of his text messages on his phone." she smirked. "One of them was from himself and it said that the mark was complete and it gave the details of the whereabouts of Connor."
"And where is that?" Stefan asked innocently.
"I can't remember." Elena smiled back and sipped on her coffee as she guessed Stefan would have tried to get to Connor first, which meant she couldn't trust him. Elena turned and looked over to the living room where Jeremy was sat. "Jer, are you ready?" she asked as Jeremy pressed pause on the game, before he picked up his phone, got up and walked over to the two vampires in the kitchen.
"Yep!" Jeremy said. "What do you want me to do?" he asked.
"I'm going to call Kol and invite him over for a truce meeting about Silas, whilst Stefan shows you what to do with the dagger." Elena told him, holding her hand out for Jeremy's cell, which he handed over.
Stefan dipped the dagger in the ash as Elena turned her back to the two men and scrolled through the numbers on Jeremy's phone, hoping Kol would play the part of unsuspecting victim. "Stab him right in the heart." Elena heard Stefan say as she found the number and pressed the call button.
"Jeremy Gilbert. Nice to hear from you mate." Elena heard Kol's voice at the other end.
"Actually, it's Elena Gilbert." Elena replied coolly.
"What a treat. Yeah, I was just thinking of all the clever ways I could have your boyfriend killed." Kol sneered. "Just because he's best buds with Nik, doesn't mean he's off limits, especially now he's desperate to find the cure." he added.
"Stefan is not my boyfriend." Elena said through gritted teeth as she turned and looked at Stefan, who's eyes were suddenly cast down.
"Does that mean you don't mind me killing him?" Kol asked.
"I need to talk to you...in person. I wanna call a truce, in the name of Silas." Elena told him, ignoring Kol's jibe about Stefan. She wasn't sure if he was being serious or not, his play acting seemingly a little too good for comfort.
"You want to talk about Silas?" Kol asked her.
"I'll meet you wherever you want. I'll come to you." Elena said, hoping Kol would take the hint to suggest he came to her house so that the plan could be set into motion. Elena's concern about Kol was that he was volatile and she still wasn't sure how much she could trust him.
"I'll tell you what. How about I come to you?" Kol suggested as the doorbell rang. Everyone turned and looked at each other in surprise, nobody had expected him to arrive so quickly.
"Are you ready?" Elena mouthed to Jeremy, looking at the dagger in his hand. Jeremy nodded in reply and shoved the dagger in his belt behind his back.
"Hello? If you want a truce, open the door and invite me in. I'm waiting." Kol shouted through the door. "Let me in and let's talk truce." he added.
"Wouldn't that be kind of stupid to invite you in?" Elena asked down the phone, before realizing it was futile and hung up.
"On the contrary, I could kill you. I'm sure that would stop your...ex boyfriend from searching for the cure, likewise with Nik and whatever his face is, your ex boyfriend's brother, Damien, that's right isn't it?" he asked sarcastically. "Though killing you wouldn't stop my sister, although I could dagger her. But then I've got the Professor and the Bennett witch, which is the problem." he went on, practically talking to himself. "She's protecting him, and as I discovered earlier, she's a little bit too powerful for me to kill. That makes you my safest option to stop them." he offered, as Elena looked between Stefan and Jeremy, as Stefan nodded in agreement with Kol's motivation.
"I'm the only one that can invite him inside." Jeremy whispered theatrically.
"He's right, obviously." Kol called out from the other side of the door, loud enough for the benefit of Jeremy's hearing.
Elena opened the door to find a smiling Kol on the other side. "You'd think being alive for over a thousand years would teach me some manners, but I couldn't resist stopping by." he said sarcastically, as Elena looked back at Jeremy and nodded.
Jeremy nodded back at Elena before turning to Kol. "You can come in." he said before returning to the kitchen, out of sight.
"No gold medals for bravery, I see." Kol sneered. "You know the thing I love about the modern age is...music, anytime you like." he added as he put his phone and earphones in his pocket, in a way that purposely gave only Elena a small glimpse of the white oak stake, which was stashed in an inside pocket of Kol's jacket. "So...this is the part where you offer me a drink so we can have a proper chat." he said as he was about to enter the house, prompting Elena to nod and move aside to let Kol in before closing the door. As soon as he walked in, Kol began clutching his head in pain, bringing him to his knees.
"Arghhh...what's this?" he cried, as Stefan rushed over and pulled Kol's arms behind his back, thrusting his chest forward as Jeremy walked over to the with the dagger in hand. "I thought we were mates." Kol said, tears in his eyes with pain as Jeremy plunged the dagger straight into his heart. The effects of the dagger were instantaneous, the gray color ran up his skin and his veins turned dark, imitating a vampire death, albeit only temporary.
Stefan dragged Kol's body away from the doorway and into the kitchen, before Elena got a white sheet and covered it, just as the front door opened and Damon walked in.
"Hi." Damon said to Elena, smiling, as Elena walked out from the kitchen and over to Damon before hugging him."Sorry I missed all the excitement." he asked hugging her back as he look over her shoulder and spotted Kol's sheet covered body.
"I'm just happy to see you." Elena said as she kissed him passionately on the lips.
"Ahem." Jeremy said, making a coughing noise as Damon and Elena looked over to him and then to Stefan, as if they'd completely forgotten they weren't alone. "What do you want to do now?" Jeremy asked.
"You can go over to Bonnie's Jer." Elena told him. "Tell her we need her to take down Klaus." she said. Jeremy nodded and headed out to Bonnie's.
"You got the stuff for the hunter?" Stefan asked Damon awkwardly, prompting Damon to frown and look at Elena.
"You told him?" Damon asked her.
"He had to know." Elena replied. "Don't worry, I didn't tell him where the hunter was being kept." she explained, as Damon nodded, before turning his attention back to his brother.
"Yeah, I got the stuff to keep him down." Damon told him. "Look, the only way we can get the cure is to work as a team. I've got an idea of how to get Professor Shady to help us, but it would need your help." Damon explained. "I've got the hunter, all that is missing is the headstone, which I'm guessing is something you or Barbie Klaus have. Once we get the Original family out of the way, we can team up and get this cure and get rid of the creepy Professor guy, then we all live happily ever after, human or vampire. What do you say brother?" he smiled.
"Fine." Stefan sighed. "I'll call Klaus, then I'll go get the headstone from Rebekah." he said getting his phone out of his pocket whilst Damon began rummaging through the cupboards to get a glass and the bottle of bourbon Elena now kept.
"How much did you get?" Elena asked as Damon poured two glasses and handed one over to her.
"Enough to keep a horse unconscious for a month." Damon smiled, taking a sip from his glass.
"I have an idea." Elena mouthed to Damon, as she put her finger on her lips and shook her head, before looking over to Stefan who was still on the phone talking to Klaus. Damon slowly nodded his head acknowledging the fact that Elena wanted to wait until Stefan had gone before she told him her plan. Damon lifter Elena onto the island in the middle of the kitchen and wrapped his arms around her waist, whilst she wrapped her legs around his waist and her arms around his neck.
"I've got an even better idea..." Damon whispered suggestively, earning him a death glare from Elena, in which he responded by pouting, before he pulled her in for a kiss whilst Stefan continued to talk to Klaus. "The things I want to do with you on this island, are so wicked and delicious, that you'll never look at strawberries and chocolate the same way again." he whispered seductively in Elena's ear, sending shivers of lust down her spine. Deciding that she needed to shut him up before she lost control in front of Stefan with his brother, Elena began to kiss Damon furiously, as if her life depended on it.
Bonnie had gotten home from Elena's and was just finishing packing for their trip. She'd gotten everything ready for the spell, and all she had to do was be there when Klaus arrived to lock him into the Gilbert House. Bonnie had everything packed except her phone, which she'd been searching for, for the last twenty minutes.
"I have to get to Elena's...have you seen my phone?" Bonnie asked her dad who was stood at the door watching as Bonnie frantically searched under the cushions of the couch.
"You mean this?" he asked, prompting Bonnie to turn around and look at him as he held up her phone. "I've got your phone, and I've got your car keys. And I told you, we are having a family meeting." Rudy said sternly.
"Is that something you read in a book?" Bonnie asked sarcastically. "Because we have never had a family meeting." she said folding her arms.
"I've let this go on far enough." Rudy replied. "Shane said you and your magic are like a ticking time bomb."
"And I told you he's crazy." Bonnie sighed with frustration.
"I lost your mother to witchcraft. I don't intend to lose you." Rudy said defiantly.
"It's not your life, it's mine." Bonnie insisted but stopped as she were suddenly interrupted by the sound of urgent pounding on the door. Rudy walked off to answer it, but Bonnie waited for him in the living room as she heard her father answer the door.
"Yeah?" Bonnie heard her father say.
"Is Bonnie here?" Jeremy's voice rang through into the living room, prompting Bonnie to go and talk to him.
"She's busy." Rudy said rudely as he tried shutting the door, but Bonnie heard Jeremy stop him and he came in just as Bonnie joined them in the foyer.
"It's important." Jeremy insisted.
"What's going on?" Bonnie asked, making her presence known.
"I've called you like a hundred times." Jeremy said urgently. "Kol is in our house, I daggered him. Klaus should be on his way soon, are you ready to go?" he asked.
Horrified everything was happening so quickly, Bonnie turned to her father."I have to go." she insisted.
"I said "no"." Rudy commanded, angering Bonnie, which manifested itself by her breaking a light with her magic, prompting fear into her father's eyes.
"Stop telling me what to do." Bonnie demanded as she tried walking out of the door, but she stopped short when she saw Abby blocking her way, her mother's eyes red with the surrounding veins protruding in the usual vamped out fashion.
"No one's going anywhere."Abby said angrily.
"Mom?" Bonnie asked confused at the sight of her mother stood at the door.
"Abby, please come in." Rudy said, making his vampire invitation clear before standing to one side to allow Abby to walk in.
"What are you doing here?" Bonnie asked, still in shock at the presence of her mother.
"Your father called." Abbey said in a matter of fact fashion, before turning around, her vampire features having already disappeared. "Who's professor Shane?" her mother asked. "And what has he been teaching you?" she wanted to know.
"Bonnie, we don't have time for this." Jeremy insisted.
"This is a family matter." Rudy told Jeremy who turned to face the Mayor.
"My sister's in trouble. We need Bonnie's help." Jeremy explained.
"My daughter is done helping Elena Gilbert." Abby spat. "Now, get out!" she snarled at Jeremy.
"Mom!" Bonnie pleaded as Jeremy took a step back, headed for the door.
"Just go, okay? Wait outside, I'm right behind you." Bonnie promised Jeremy, who left to wait outside for her as she closed the door, before turning and facing her mom. "You wanna talk? Let's talk." Bonnie said, folding her arms.
"Answer my question. What lies has this professor been telling you?"Abby asked.
"Dad needs to mind his own business." Bonnie glared at her father before turning back to face Abbey. "He had no right to call you here."
"It's not just your father, Bonnie. Witches talk, word gets around."Abby told her.
"I found a new way to practice. It's unconventional, but I can handle myself, I promise." Bonnie explained.
"That's not what Shane said." Rudy told Abbey, as he sat down on the chair opposite the couch.
"Shane is sitting in a jail cell right now. You're going to take his word over mine?" Bonnie asked.
"I have warned you about dark magic before."Abby chided.
"It's not dark magic, it's Expression and I need it!" Bonnie exclaimed, in frustration. "We found a cure, Mom. There's a cure for vampirism. And I can do the spell to access it. I can save you, but I have to go...now." she pleaded.
"I'm not the one that needs to be saved. You are."Abby said before she vamp-sped over to Bonnie and placed her hand filled with herbs over Bonnie's mouth, drugging her daughter, as Bonnie passed out.
Rudy picked Bonnie up and laid her on the couch as Abby walked over to the dresser at the other side of the room and took out a bag of herbs from her purse and began crushing them using the mortar and pestle Bonnie kept there. Rudy stroked Bonnie's head to make sure she was safely sleeping before he got up and walked over to his ex wife.
"You're drugging her?" Rudy asked quietly, his voice full of concern.
"Just enough to keep her down until I can get some witches here to clean her mind from that poison that professor's been teaching her."Abby explained as she continued working the mortar and pestle.
"That's not happening." Bonnie said angrily from behind, surprising both Rudy and Abby, and prompting them to turn around to face their angry daughter.
"Bonnie, please."Abby begged as Bonnie held out her hand, using the same magic on Abby as she'd used on Kol earlier that day. Abby gasped in pain, as the mortar and pestle broke in her hands, pieces of clay falling all over the floor as Abby doubled up in pain whilst Bonnie forced her bones to break. Abbey screamed, as she fell to the floor, Rudy got down on his knees and put his arm around her to comfort her.
"I don't belong to the spirits anymore. I belong to myself. Sorry." Bonnie warned them as she left the house, and her shocked parents, picking up her phone from the dresser where her father had put it, and collecting her bag from the hallway, opening the door to be greeted outside by a patiently waiting Jeremy.
"You ready to go?" he asked.
"As ready as I'll ever be." Bonnie said as she got out her phone to text Elena to let her know they were on their way, before they set off to Jeremy's house.
"Klaus is on his way." Stefan said returning to the kitchen, where Elena jumped off the island and nervously placed her hands in the back pockets of her jeans, whilst Damon stood a little way away from her with his glass of bourbon, both acting as if they'd been caught with their hands in the cookie jar.
"How long did he say he'll be?" Damon asked.
"He didn't, but I doubt he'll be long. He didn't sound too happy." Stefan replied taking in the rather unkempt appearance of both his brother and Elena, which was a recent development as they'd looked fine when he'd left to go to talk to Klaus. The reason for the change made Stefan feel sick with rage at them flaunting their relationship so blatantly in front of him, and making him feel decidedly awkward "Will you guys be fine to deal with Klaus if I go now to get the headstone from Rebekah?" he asked, desperate to get away from the two of them.
"Yeah...Yeah...That's fine." Elena said hesitantly. "Isn't it Damon?" she asked, glancing at Damon, then back to Stefan as she nervously ran her hand through her hair.
"As long as Sabrina is here, we'll be fine." Damon smiled before lifting his glass up and then taking a sip. "Any word from her?" he asked as Elena went over to her purse and rummaged through until she found her phone.
Elena unlocked her phone and saw a message from Bonnie that had been sent ten minutes ago. "Be there in ten minutes." she read out to the brothers. "That was ten minutes ago, she should be here any time." she added.
"We're fine here bro, you go and um...use your ahem...charms to remove that tombstone from Barbie Klaus." Damon winked at Stefan.
"Fine." Stefan harrumphed. "I'll see you back at the house shortly." he said as he walked out of the front door as fast as he could.
"See you later bro. Don't take too long trying to 'pump' that information out of her." Damon laughed to himself until he saw Elena folding her arms, and his face dropped.
"What was that all about?" she asked.
"Nothing." Damon said innocently as he walked over to Elena and wrapped his arms around her waist. "He's got the tougher task, we've got Sabrina on our side and he's got his hero hair to fall back on. Bonnie might be a ticking time-bomb right now, but I trust her over Stefan's hero hair any day. He's going to need to use every trick in the book to get that tombstone from Rebekah."
"True." Elena agreed.
"So what was your devious plan?" Damon whispered, just in case anyone was nearby.
"When you go to get Connor and Professor Shane, leave me at the boarding house." Elena told him. "I'm going to undagger Kol myself and leave him a note to tell him to stay where he is until we've left." she said.
"Why?" Damon asked.
"Because then we have the dagger whilst we're looking for the cure. If anything goes wrong we have leverage." Elena explained. "If Jeremy does it, Kol or Klaus will get hold of the dagger and ash."
"Won't Kol be really pissed off and kill us?" Damon frowned.
"No." Elena smiled. "I kinda think he already knows that I'm going to do it, in fact I think he wants me to do it." she said bending down next to Kol's body. "He had the white oak stake with him. He knows I've seen it because he purposely showed it to just me, so if I leave it with him, then he knows he can trust us." she explained as she lifted the sheet and showed Damon the stake held inside Kol's jacket.
"You know, we could just stake him with the white oak stake, right now." Damon suggested as Elena replaced the sheet, stood up, folded her arms and raised one eyebrow. "But then Klaus would be really pissed." he grimaced as Elena nodded at him, when they heard the door suddenly open. Damon and Elena exchanged worried glances and rushed out of the kitchen, both hoping it was Bonnie and not Klaus.
"Hey Elena." Bonnie said as she and Jeremy appeared through the door. "Damon." she nodded coolly at the vampire.
"Sabrina." he grinned back.
"Is everything ready?" Elena asked Bonnie. "Klaus should be here anytime soon."
"Yeah." Bonnie replied. "All we need to do is invite him in and lure him into the living room." she explained.
"I'm sure we can do that." Damon nodded, just as they all heard a noise outside. Elena and Jeremy rushed to the front door and opened it, finding Klaus stood on the other side, eyes blazing with anger.
"What did you do?" Klaus asked in an angry whisper as he saw Kol's body on the kitchen floor, daggered and covered in a sheet.
"We didn't have a choice." Elena explained nervously, backing away from the door, holding her hand out and pushing Jeremy behind her protectively.
"Lies! He never would've gotten inside if you hadn't have set a trap for him." Klaus cried angrily.
"You said you were going to put him down too." Elena
"I was going to make him suffer on my terms!" Klaus shouted, waving his finger, a sign of his fury.
"You're never going to get to the cure. You'll never be able to make any more hybrids." Elena taunted him, edging even further back.
"You really think I care for an instant about my bloody hybrids?" Klaus snarled furiously. "I want the cure so I can destroy it. I would've killed you all the second we dug it up." he admitted, as he suddenly fell to the ground, crying out in pain from the same use of magic Bonnie had used on Kol and her mother. Klaus was writhing around on the Gilbert porch on his knees, when Bonnie walked up to him smiling.
"Invite him in." Bonnie cried out. "Do it!" she demanded as she used her magic to control Klaus and force him to get to his feet.
"Come in." Jeremy said nervously as Elena pushed her brother even further inside the house and away from Klaus.
Still using her controlling magic, Bonnie pulled Klaus inside the house and temporarily immobilized him.
"Living room. Go!" Bonnie cried out as she, Elena and Jeremy ran into the living room.
Finally released from the binding spell over him, Klaus followed them to the living room, however the three of them continued to run through the living and then into the kitchen where Damon was stood waiting over Kol's body. Klaus however, was unable to follow, as Bonnie had spelled an invisible wall between the living room and kitchen. Elena, Bonnie, Jeremy walked through the hallway to leave as Klaus tried to follow them through the living room exit, but he was met by another invisible barrier, angrily he punched at the air, but his fist met with the magic wall.
"Witch, you can't do this to me." Klaus screamed at Bonnie.
"You have no idea what I can do now." Bonnie sneered back.
"I will hunt all of you to your end! Do you hear me? Do you!?" Klaus shouted as he continued to punch the magic barrier before stopping and turning around as he became distracted and his attention focused on the kitchen where Damon was picking up Kol's body and throwing him over his shoulder.
"What are you doing?" Klaus screamed at Damon.
"I think I'll take this." Damon said smiling. "Call it leverage and all." he smirked as he Elena, Bonnie, and Jeremy leave the house, as Klaus continued to pound against Bonnie's magic barrier futilely.
"You'll all fucking pay for this." he cried after them. "You mark my words." he added, however his protests were in vain. The door was locked and Bonnie, Damon, Elena and Jeremy were all heading back to the boarding house to plan their next move towards their differing goals.
Admittedly not my best chapter, but significant to the plot going forwards.
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