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).
Damon, Elena, Bonnie and Jeremy all arrived at the Salvatore boarding house a little while later. Stefan had yet to return with the headstone and Damon had already placed Kol's body in the basement. All that was left was for Damon and Elena to pack and wait for Stefan so they could kidnap Connor and rescue Professor Shane, before setting of in search of the cure.
"Well I'm going to shower, change and pack whilst I wait for my little brother." Damon announced. "I'm not expecting luxury shower facilities wherever we're going, so I'm going to enjoy mine one last time for the next few days." he added. "You coming Elena?" he asked winking, as Elena looked over to Jeremy and Bonnie both sat down on the couch, not knowing where to look.
"You guys don't mind?" Elena said timidly. "I do need to pack."
"Whatever Elena." Jeremy sighed as Elena and Damon made their way upstairs.
"I think that translates as 'We're going to have sex because we might not get any for a while wherever we're going.'" Elena overheard Jeremy say to Bonnie as she walked through Damon's bedroom door.
"They know exactly what we're up to." Elena complained under her voice as she closed the door behind her.
"I wouldn't be sure that they know 'exactly' what we're doing." Damon insisted walking over to Elena. "Neither of them have had the level of practice we've had." he winked. "I suspect Judgy hasn't had any at all." he smirked as he wrapped his arms around Elena's waist.
"Hey, that's my best friend you're talking about." Elena pouted. "What makes you think that she's still a virgin?" she asked suspiciously.
"She'd be a lot less Judgy if she had a better sex life." Damon insisted as Elena rolled her eyes.
"Seriously Damon?" she asked. "I can't believe we're having this conversation." she said.
"Well let's stop having this conversation then." Damon suggested. "We need to have a shower remember?" he said as he let go of Elena's waist and walked over to the shower, shedding his shirt along the way, causing Elena's jaw to drop. She'd never get enough of the sight of Damon's naked chest, especially when his jeans were hanging low off his hips, revealing his treasure trail. Elena licked her lips as she watched him switch the shower on and purposely undress suggestively before stepping inside and his nakedness being partially covered by the frosted glass. Unable to control herself, Elena removed her own clothes in record time to join him, earning her a smirk of satisfaction from Damon.
"What's that look?" she asked him suspiciously, as he walked over to her, his body already slick from the water. Without saying a word, he grabbed hold of her around the waist and pulled her under the spray with him as his mouth attacked hers with such passion and ferocity, she'd have thought he'd be a starving man, having his first meal in over a week.
Damon gently stroked Elena's cheek whilst he kissed her as his erection poked into her belly. Elena ran her hands up Damon's wet torso, behind his neck and into his wet raven locks. Suddenly Damon moved so that he was stood behind her as he mover her hair so her wet locks were cascading down just one shoulder, allowing him access to her neck, which he began scraping his blunt teeth against, before swapping it for soothing licks, practically sending Elena into ecstasy. With one hand he began to gently circle her clit and the other he played with one of her nipples. Elena threw her head back, leaning against Damon's naked body as she slipped her hand behind her back and began to gently pump Damon's shaft, earning her a moan of pleasure from him.
"We don't have much time." he said seductively as he nibbled Elena's ear.
"I thought we we're multi-tasking." she joked as she began to pump harder, whilst Damon slipped a finger inside her, causing her to moan as she could already feel the pressure of an impending orgasm mounting.
"God you're wet." he moaned as he pushed Elena so her back was up against the glass front of the shower and got down on his knees and began spreading her folds, before his mouth attacked her nub whilst his fingers worked their magic inside her. He quickly built her up as she felt heat pooling inside her stomach and the burning hot spasms of her orgasm contracting around Damon's fingers.
"Ah...Fuck...Damon!" she cried out as she began to shake from the intensity of the pleasure he was giving her. However, as wonderful as it was, it could only ever be short lived, as soon as she began to come down from her high, Damon stood up and sucked her juices from is fingers.
"God you taste good." he said as he kissed her passionately, before picking her up, wrapping her legs around his waist as he thrust into her deeply, causing Elena's back to arch in pleasure.
"More..." she cried as Damon began setting a faster pace whilst her back was still up against the frosted glass of the shower front.
"Fuck...you're tight and wet." Damon panted. "I'm not gonna last long." he said as he rested his head in the crook of her neck, licking and sucking on her jugular.
"Me neither if you keep doing that." Elena moaned. "Imagine if someone walked into your bedroom and caught us." she said breathlessly.
Damon lifted his head up to look at her carefully before smirking. "They'd be fucking jealous of our sex life." he grinned as he managed to slip his hand between them and began to play with Elena's clit prompting Elena to feel the sensation of another orgasm, almost immediately after the first. From experience she knew this one was likely to be even more powerful than the the one before. "Can you imagine complete strangers watching us?" Damon whispered seductively. "They'd all end up cumming just by how hot we look and from the way I can make you scream." he added smugly. For some reason those words seriously affected Elena as her body became rigid and hear core became white hot as the pleasurable contractions, that only Damon could give her began to take control over her body. The pleasure was so intense, that her only response was a silent scream as her core began milking Damon's shaft, sending him tumbling over the edge. "Fuck...Elena..." he cried as he screwed his face up the way Elena loved, signaling his release.
They stood there like that for a minute before Damon slipped out of Elena and she stood on her own two feet, a little wobbly at first from the intensity of the two orgasms Damon had just given her, as he walked over to the little shelf in the wall where he kept the shower gel and took some of Elena's and began to wash her down.
"You don't think they heard?" Elena asked feeling a little self conscious as she referred to Bonnie and Jeremy, whilst Damon lathered her body down, sending tingles down her spine.
"Nope. My room is almost soundproof." he reassured her. "This bathroom is too far away from the parlor for even vampire hearing to hear us." he added, as he swapped Elena's shower gel for his own and put some in her hand to return the favor.
"I'm going to have to make it clear to Stefan that taking this cure isn't going to make any difference." Elena sighed as she washed Damon's body down. "Maybe I should tell him when I began having feelings for you." she suggested.
"Well make sure you do it while I'm not around." Damon warned her. "I don't want to die just yet." he joked as he reached out and got his shampoo and handed it to Elena for her to wash his hair.
"At some point everyone is going to ask why we're searching for the cure if I don't want to be human." Elena said as she began washing Damon's hair. "What do we say?" she asked.
"Well, we could tell them that it means that should at any point in the future we decide that we want to settle down and have a family, we have that option." he suggested.
"Nobody would buy that?" Elena scoffed.
"Why not?" Damon asked as he stood under the shower to rinse his hair, before reaching out for Elena's shampoo and putting some in his own hand to return the favor.
"Who'd believe you'd want kids?" Elena asked as she turned around and Damon began massaging the shampoo into her hair.
"If we were human, do you think I'd want to have kids with you?" Damon asked as he pulled Elena back under the spray.
"I guess." Elena said after thinking about it for a moment. "But we're not human." she said sadly turning to look at Damon.
"I know, but if we had the cure, it would always be an option." he told her, kissing her chastely on the lips. "We'd always have that potential future. I guess our piece of humanity to strive to be good, so that when the time is right, we'd be ready."
"Are you regretting offering to help Kol?" Elena asked, surprised by Damon's confession.
"If what Kol says about Silas is true, then we don't really have a choice." Damon said sadly, resting his forehead against hers. "This Silas guy scares me, which is why I know we need to get Sabrina away from Professor Creepy, who despite knowing what Silas is, still wants to unleash him on this world." he told her. "Look, I think we should see what happens, and if we can have the cure and destroy Silas, then I'll be happy." he smiled as he reached over and turned the water off.
"So if it was an option, taking the cure to have a family, you'd consider it?" Elena asked, raising her eyebrow at him.
"Not yet." Damon admitted. "But who knows what the future might bring? So eventually yes." he smiled.
"I love you." Elena whispered, wrapping her arms around his neck.
"I love you too." Damon said as he kissed her once more. "But if we stay in here any longer, we won't even get going to find that cure as you're beginning to make me hard again." he winked as Elena pouted and they got out of the shower, to get ready to search for the cure.
Stefan arrived at Rebekah's house a short while later. He wasn't sure how Rebekah would take the fact that Jeremy had daggered Kol, it was a sensitive subject for the female Original vampire.
"I don't believe you. How did Jeremy manage to dagger him? Kol is way too smart to let some idiot teenage boy and a stupid girl get the better of him." Rebekah cried after Stefan had told her what happened.
"Listen, Rebekah, they didn't have a choice. Kol started this when he went after Professor Shane and Damon. He went after you too, do you remember? I mean, he was never going to let us find the cure." Stefan explained.
"So you knew? This whole night, you knew?" Rebekah eyed him suspiciously.
"I'm not gonna let the people that I care about get hurt." Stefan answered truthfully. "Not Jeremy, not Elena, not even Damon. And you can hate me for it, but now he can't hurt you, either. And I want us to find this cure together, you and me." he said, gently placing his arms reassuringly on her shoulders. "Not just for Elena, but for you. So that you can have what you want, be what you want. Be human again. Everyone deserves a second chance, right?" Stefan asked.
"Why would I trust you?" Rebekah asked, cocking her head.
"I don't know. I guess I could give you my word, but at the end of the day, you just need to take a leap." Stefan promised her. "Look, do you want to find the cure or not?" he asked. Rebekah just gave him a small nod in reply and looked to the floor like a naughty child. "Good." Stefan smiled at her. "Now you go pack your things, then bring the headstone. We're leaving tonight." he told as she looked back up at him in surprise.
"So soon?" she asked.
"We're don't have much time." Stefan explained. "Bonnie's little jail cell won't keep Klaus forever. We need to be long gone by the time he gets out. Preferably already back with the cure." he added.
"Fine." Rebekah sighed as she began to walk over to the stairs to go to her bedroom and pack. "You make yourself at home whilst you wait. I'm going to shower and pack. I shouldn't take too long." she smiled and began walking up the stairs leaving Stefan alone in Rebekah's living room, when she suddenly stopped and looked back at Stefan. "Unless you decide to join me if you want." she said suggestively. It took Stefan the whole duration of five seconds to make up his mind to join her. Why should he care, it wasn't as if Damon and Elena were hiding their relationship. Hell, he wouldn't be shocked if they were having their own pre-trip fuck right now. Why shouldn't he? Stefan got up off the couch and made his way to Rebekah's bedroom, hearing water from the shower, he began taking his clothes to join her.
Jeremy was nervously pacing around the Salvatore boarding house parlor, whilst Elena and Bonnie were sat on the couch watching him and Damon was pouring himself a drink at the wet bar.
"What if it doesn't work?"Jeremy asked Bonnie.
"Where's that Gilbert optimism?" Damon laughed at Jeremy who stopped pacing.
"You'll be fine staying with Matt." Elena reassured her brother.
"The spell is going to stay for the next few days. Hopefully we'll be back before he's released," Bonnie explained as suddenly the front door opened and Stefan walked in carrying Silas' tombstone. He closed the door and made his way to the parlor to join the rest of the group.
"Looks like I didn't miss much. Got the Silas headstone." Stefan lifted up the rock in his hand for show before setting it down on a table as Damon watched him warily.
"Bonnie's spell worked." Elena told Stefan. "Klaus is trapped in our living room."
"Temporarily." Bonnie added. "I drew on the new moon to bind the spell. We've got three days to find that cure – four, max." she explained.
"If we don't, we might as well look up Katherine Pierce and see if she wants some company in hiding, 'cause he will come after us." Jeremy warned them.
"You'll be fine Jer." Elena said. "Klaus can't get into Matt's place, and Tyler and Caroline will be looking out for you." she said.
"And Klaus is soft on Blondie, which means that's as good as any protection you can get." Damon smirked at Jeremy, earning him a glare from Elena, who turned to look at her brother once more.
"Anyway, we should be back by then." she reassured him. "Now that we've got the tombstone, all we need is professor Shane and Connor, and then we'll have everything we need. We just need to escape before Rebekah realizes Stefan stole the headstone from her." Elena said.
"Yeah, I didn't, uh...I didn't steal it from her or anything." Stefan admitted.
"What? Why not?" Elena asked. "How did you get it?" she eyed him curiously.
"I didn't need to steal it. She's on our side." Stefan smiled smugly.
"On our side? Did you really just say that?" Elena got up and walked over to get a little closer to him.
"Yeah, she handed over the headstone." Stefan told her. "I mean, she wants to find this cure more than any of us." he explained.
"Why would you possibly think that we could trust her" Elena frowned.
"Let me guess, she pledged her allegiance to you while you were naked in the sack?" Damon said, folding his arms and smirking as everyone looked at him in shocked silence at this new development, Elena most of all looked shocked and hurt.
"I bet you were just dying to get that out, weren't you, Damon?" Stefan sneered.
"Oh, was that supposed to be a secret?!" Damon said sarcastically. " Oops. Maybe you should have made that a little clearer while you were punching me in the face." he went on as he put his hand over his mouth theatrically.
"Stop it, both of you." Elena cried.
"Now, why don't you tell her to calm down, Damon?" Stefan told Damon condescendingly, prompting Damon to punch Stefan in the face, knocking him down in the process. Stefan got back up and hit Damon back when they were brought to a sudden stop by Rebekah walking in.
"Play nice boys. We've got work to do." Rebekah grinned. "What shall we do first, rescue the Professor or kidnap the hunter?" she asked.
Damon and Bonnie stood in front of the fire in the parlor whilst everyone watched. Taking his hands, Bonnie closed her eyes and began to chant under her breath. The lights in the candles which had been placed strategically around them, joined by a line of salt, began burning much brighter. The flames stood over a foot tall, which seemed impossible for the size of the candle's. For once Damon was feeling nervous, a little fearful of what Bonnie was doing. He suspected she wasn't in complete control of her magic, and was worried that she might be pissed at him for any number of reasons that she might just literally set him on fire.
"So what does this do?" Damon asked Bonnie gingerly, prompting Bonnie to open her eyes and glare at him.
"It is supposed to protect you from Connor." "Bonnie informed him.
"Can I trust you?" Damon asked. "I mean, you're not doing this for me out of the goodness of you're heart. You'd rather see the hunter kill me." he said.
"Your right." Bonnie smirked. "I would rather see the hunter kill you. However she wouldn't, in fact she'd be devastated." Bonnie cocked her head over to where Elena is standing. "Plus you're the strongest vampire that I trust to get Connor and not run off with him." she explained. "However you need to stop interrupting me." she growled, prompting a nod of agreement from Damon as Bonnie went back to her chanting for another moment. "Done!" she suddenly exclaimed.
"So if he tries to attack me, what happens?" Damon asked.
"He'll meet with an invisible barrier, similar to a suit of armor." Bonnie explained. "It's only temporary." she went on. "I can only make them last a couple of hours."
"We'll take the SUV." Damon looked to Bonnie before turning to Stefan and Rebekah.. "And you guys can take something from Klaus's collection to fetch Professor Creepy." he said.
"Shane!" Bonnie cried indignantly. "It's Professor Shane."
"Whatever." Damon shrugged and shook his head, before returning his focus on his brother. "You both good on the plan?" Damon asked Rebekah and Stefan.
"Either Compel them or snap their necks." Rebekah said in a bored tone. "Not exactly hard to remember." she added.
"No touching Liz if she's around." Damon warned them. "Although I believe Blondie managed to keep her mom at home and out of trouble for the night." he added as he opened the front door and gestured for Bonnie to walk out. Elena rushed over towards Damon.
"You be careful." she warned as she grabbed his face and they began to kiss as if they were never going to see each other again.
"I'll be fine." he whispered after they pulled back, ignoring the looks they were getting from their friends and family. "I've got Sab...Bonnie here to protect me." Damon corrected himself and smiled as he kissed Elena on the forehead. "We shouldn't be too long, it's not far from here." he said as she grabbed him and chastely kissed him once more on the lips.
"I guess we'd better get a move on." Rebekah sneered as she pushed past Elena and Damon and walked out of the door. "Are you coming or are you planning on leaving me to do all of the hard work?" she called out to Stefan.
"I'm on my way." he said as he quickly walked past Damon and Elena, trying unsuccessfully to ignore them, as they headed out towards Klaus's mansion to collect a suitable car to use to kidnap Professor Shane.
"Excuse me." Bonnie suddenly said, interrupting them. "Can we get going?" she asked. "I'm getting old standing here waiting for you two." she said as she walked outside and waited next to the Salvatore SUV for Damon.
"Look, I gotta go before she hexes me." Damon joked to Elena as he gave her one last peck on the lips before following Bonnie and jumping into the drivers seat of the car.
"You ready?" he turned and looked at Bonnie.
"As ready as I'll ever be when it comes to having to share a car with you." she complained. "Let's just go." she said, and with that Damon pulled out of the driveway of the Salvatore boarding house and set off towards Pastor Young's farm.
As soon as everybody had left, Elena ran back down into the basement with Jeremy and into the room where they'd lain Kol's body. Elena pulled the sheet back, and taking hold of the dagger with both hands, she carefully removed it. Elena handed the dagger to Jeremy who took it back upstairs, away from the Original and into Elena's back pack. Elena removed the white oak stake from Kol's jacket pocket and sat back on the chair in the room for a few moments to wait and see if he woke soon. It had come from experience that the shorter the time the Original had been daggered, it usually didn't take as long for them to recover.
Whether or not her theory was correct about the recovery time, her gamble paid off, Kol's body quickly returned to normal and he suddenly woke only a couple of minutes later, taking in a huge gasp of breath and sitting up, staring at Elena who was sat with the white oak stake in her lap.
"I thought we had a deal!" Kol said angrily as he looked at her playing with the stake.
"We do." Elena replied. "I just need to make sure we're on the same page." she explained.
"Go on." Kol offered.
"Jeremy has the dagger upstairs." Elena told him. "It's leverage. Rebekah is coming with us. There was nothing I could do." she explained. "It appears she and Stefan have been..." her voice trailed off.
"He's been playing the jealous ex, causing trouble with you and your new fella whilst screwing around with my sister?" Kol raised an eyebrow, as Elena nodded in a silent reply. "Look, I'm not some stupid reality TV show relationship mediator darling." Kol sighed. "All I want to know is why you have undaggered me before you leave and have taken the white oak stake from my pocket. I was hoping you'd leave it there as a measure of good faith." he continued. "Maybe I was wrong to trust you."
"Here." Elena handed over the white oak stake to a confused looking Kol, who was still sat on the floor, half covered by the sheet. "It seems we are on the same page." she explained. "I'm going to quickly tell you what is going on." Kol nodded as he took the stake from her hand and put it back in his pocket. "We don't have much time." she told him. "Bonnie used the new moon to trap Klaus in my house for three, maybe four days before he can escape." Elena said. "Rebekah had the tombstone, which is now here, she and Stefan have gone to get Professor Shane from the police station. They should be back soon." she told him. "Bonnie and Damon have gone to get the hunter. Bonnie put a protection spell on Damon so that he can sedate the hunter when they kidnap him to take him to the find Silas." Elena added.
"Why don't you get you're friend to try casting a binding spell on a piece of rope?" Kol suggested.
"What do you mean?" Elena asked. "How do you know about this stuff?" she eyed him suspiciously.
"My mother was a witch." Kol sighed. "That meant we were all witches, we just forfeited our powers before we had chance to practice magic so we could become vampire." he explained. "As a result I became fascinated with magic and chose to spend a lot of time with witches over the years."
"Which is why you know so much about Silas." Elena concluded as Kol nodded in reply. "So what is this binding spell?" she asked.
"All Bonnie has to do is put a strong binding spell on a rope and wrap it around his wrists. He should obey whoever is at the other end of the rope." Kol explained.
"And how do I explain where I've gotten this idea from?" Elena asked. "I know nothing about magic."
"Yes you do." Kol told her. "You saw what happened to me today. She was able to control me. Yes she was using pain, but she used a binding agent. What was it?" he asked.
"Water I think." Elena said.
"And she tied that Professor's life to that girl." Kol added. "It shouldn't be too hard for her to figure out what to do. They're called binding spells." he explained. "She's been channeling Expression and she's become very power..." Kol stopped as they both looked up and at each other as Elena placed her finger on her lips. Kol nodded and stayed silent for a moment but they didn't hear another noise.
"Look, I'm gonna get going." Elena said standing up. "I don't want to risk anyone finding me here." she said as she walked towards the door.
"Don't worry, I'll be fine down here playing dead." Kol smirked. "Just be careful and don't lose that dagger. Nik is going to be mad as hell as it is. Losing a dagger and he'd be apoplectic." he warned.
"I won't. I'll be careful." Elena reassured him as she left the room and Kol lay back down and placed the sheet back over his head.
Elena was sitting alone on the couch near the fire in the parlor with a glass of whiskey in her hand, she'd sent Jeremy to Matt's and was waiting for everyone to return. Taking a sip of the contents of the glass made her smile, only a few weeks ago she'd hated this stuff, the only time she'd liked it was when she tasted it's warmth from Damon's mouth that one night in the motel in Denver. Elena smiled to herself as she relived her and Damon's activities in the motel earlier that day as they'd tried to relive that night but without Jeremy interrupting them. Suddenly the door opened and Stefan, Rebekah and Professor Shane walked in.
"Sit!" Rebekah commanded of the Professor.
"What am I doing here? Are you going to kill me? " the Professor asked in a panicked voice as both Stefan and Rebekah ignored him, whilst Rebekah went upstairs and Stefan walked over to the wet bar and poured two glasses of whiskey. "I'm the only one who can help you find the cure." he begged.
"It's okay." Elena reassured him. "It was a rescue mission so that we can find the cure."
"But we don't have everything we need." he said looking up at Stefan as Stefan handed him one of the glasses, which the Professor accepted and took a nervous gulp from it.
"You mean this?" Rebekah said, as she walked in with the tombstone.
"How?...Where?..." Professor Shane stammered.
"Oh don't lie." Rebekah said sarcastically. "You know exactly where we found it." she said. "And the hunter should be here any minute now."
"Stefan...Can we speak for a moment, in private?" Elena asked deciding now would be a good time to talk with Stefan without Damon being around and with the final part of her trying to convince everyone that they were genuinely out to get the cure.
"Sure." Stefan said setting off to his room, as Elena got up from the couch and followed him, glass of whiskey still in hand, she was going to need some Dutch courage for this conversation. Once they'd gotten to Stefan's bedroom, Elena closed the door behind them. "So, what do you want to talk about?" he asked.
"I just want to make it clear that whatever happens once we get the cure, nothing changes." Elena told him. "I'm in love with Damon and I have been for a long time. I doubt that taking the cure is going to magically change that." she added.
"Is that it? Is that all you wanted to say?" Stefan asked through gritted teeth.
"No." Elena said. "If you're sleeping with Rebekah just for revenge, then it won't work, she'll just hurt you like she did with Damon. It's not going to upset me unless she does hurt you." she added.
"Why?" Stefan asked. "It upset you when Damon slept with Rebekah."
"That was different." Elena said, lowering her voice.
"Why?" Stefan asked.
"Because I was already in love with Damon at the time, and I'd been in love with for quite a while before that." Elena admitted.
"When?" Stefan frowned.
"My eighteenth birthday." Elena said grimacing and looking to the ground.
"That's when you started to fall for Damon?" he asked, however Elena shook her head, tears in her eyes. "When did you start looking at Damon differently?" Stefan asked.
"Please Stefan, no." Elena begged, not wanting to hurt him any more. She realized that this conversation was taking a turn for the worse.
"WHEN DID YOU START LOOKING AT MY BROTHER DIFFERENTLY?" Stefan shouted, causing Elena to jump.
Elena gulped back her tears. "When we danced together at the pageant." she admitted, closing her eyes, not wanting to look at Stefan.
"You wanted him while we were together?" Stefan asked in disgust, as Elena nodded guiltily.
"Please don't tell me you imagined him when you were with me." he closed his eyes, not wanting to know the answer.
"I..." Elena tried, but she knew that she couldn't lie to him.
"What does he have that I don't?" Stefan asked sadly. "Is it the sex?
"No!" Elena said defiantly. "He's the missing piece. Ever since my parents died, something inside me was gone, missing, dead." she explained. "You helped me live again, but Damon... Damon is the one who makes me feel alive. And he always has, even right back to when we went to Georgia."
"And how does the cure fit into all of this?" Stefan asked suspiciously. "If you don't need or want to be human again, why are you searching for the cure? It doesn't make sense."
"I still want the option for the future." Elena explained. She knew now was the performance to convince Stefan why she and Damon wanted the cure. "Right now I'm not ready for the cure. I don't want to be Klaus's blood bag." she told him. "I want to study, travel the world and experience life. And as a vampire I can do that without the concerns a normal human being has. But that doesn't mean I still don't have human desires." Elena smiled. "One day, Damon and I may decide we want the option to settle down and have a family of our own." this last part caused Stefan to laugh, Elena frowned at his response.
"Damon? Settling down and having a family?" Stefan laughed. "Are we talking about the same Damon Salvatore?" he asked.
"You clearly don't know your brother very well." Elena's face became serious as she folded her arms. "We have discussed this. I'm not saying we'd want a family tomorrow, or next year or even in a hundred years. But that cure is our hopes and dreams for our future, it gives us the best of both worlds." she smiled.
"And you really think you'll be able to cope if you kill someone?" Stefan asked. "I mean, becoming human again after the guilt consumes you?"
"I'll just have to make sure I don't kill anyone." Elena told him. "Damon has promised to make sure that I never kill during a feed. He intends to help me refine my feeding skills." she smiled.
"Well it sounds like you've gotten everything planned out." Stefan said bitterly. "If you'll excuse me, I need another drink." he said as he swallowed the entire contents of his glass in one gulp and walked out of his bedroom, leaving Elena stood there alone, until she heard a noise outside. Realizing it was Damon and Bonnie returning, she rushed downstairs to meet him in the foyer and threw her arms around Damon's neck.
"I missed you." Elena said quietly. "Stefan knows why we're looking for the cure." she whispered in Damon's ear before kissing him chastely on the lips.
"Will you two get a room already?" Bonnie complained from behind Damon, causing Elena to giggle.
"Do we have time?" Damon joked.
"No we don't!" Stefan said as he waltzed into the foyer, Rebekah and Professor following closely behind. "We need to go now." he announced, prompting Damon to fake pout, whilst Stefan picked up his and Rebekah's bags.
"Fine, who's riding with who?" Damon sighed, turning to look at Bonnie.
"Me and Professor Shane will ride in the SUV with you two." she suggested.
"Can you two handle Connor?" Damon asked turning to Rebekah and Stefan.
"What do we need to do?" Rebekah asked as Damon took some syringes from his jacket. "Inject him with one of these every four hours. That should keep him down." he told her.
Elena turned to Bonnie, remembering Kol's suggestion. "Isn't there any like spell you can do to make Connor more, controllable?" she asked as Bonnie frowned. "I mean you could control the actions of Klaus earlier. Maybe you could spell a rope or something to make him do as he's told." she added.
"There might be something in one of the grimoires." Bonnie said as she walked out of the door and made her way over to the SUV. "I can check whilst we're on our way." she suggested.
"That sounds like a plan." Damon said, looking around at his everyone else.
"We'll keep him sedated until you find something." Stefan told Bonnie as he put his and Rebekah's bags in the trunk of the car they'd taken from Klaus.
Damon opened the rear door of the SUV and dragged Connor out, picked him up and carried him over to Rebekah, who placed him in the back seat of their car, before closing the door and getting in the front passenger seat.
"Where are we going anyway?" Stefan asked.
"It's a little island near Nova Scotia." Professor Shane suddenly said as everyone turned to look at him.
As soon as he heard the front door close from the basement, Kol threw the sheet off him and stood up. He looked through the other inside pocket of his jacket and pulled out photo's of Connor's tattoo and the decoded map and spell from where he'd earlier used Klaus's sword to decipher the details of the tattoo. Luckily for Kol, like his siblings he was able to read and speak fluent Aramaic. He'd left the sword where it was, making sure nobody was suspicious that he was up to something. He had everything he needed, to go, and if everything went according to plan, Silas would be destroyed, along with the cure, he just needed to get there before his sister and the rest of the blithering idiots who were looking to unleash untold chaos into the world for their own selfish needs. However, unbeknownst to them, he was already one step ahead of achieving that goal. He smiled at his own cunning as he walked out of the basement and up the stairs, before leaving the house and heading towards a small airfield where he already had a small plane waiting to take him to his destination.
I'd like to thank everyone who helped me come to the decision as to whether to leave this story at the end of season 4 or to continue it. I have decided that it will be continued, and I will re-write a version of season 5. I have already decided upon the direction the story will take. I will keep plots that were good or would be suitable for adapting to fit my story and although some aspects will stay the same as the show, it will remain even more Delena friendly than my version of season 4. I'll just keep going until nobody wants to read it any longer or life circumstances force my hand.
Thank you to everyone who helped me decide.