Whittmore hospital
The clinical white and sterile tiling was beginning to irk Damon. He had been probed and prodded ever since the doctor returned with her legion of medical students. The doctor was insisting on running test and finding out all she could about him and though Lexi had given him a very brief warning and told him to play the amnesia card...he was very curious.
Damon looked into the irritating flashlight being shone in his eye. "No I don't remember how I got to the forest, would you please stop shining that light in my eye" he said reaching for the doctors hand.
"We don't have any missing persons reports, your blood sugar, pressure everything is low and yet you appear to be fine. Let me do my job mr- the doctor said taking a pen from behind her ear.
"Damon-"
"You remember your name" she said with a small smile on her face.
Damon looked over his shoulder at Lexi who appeared to be glaring at him and nodded. "Yeah- she's a uh Bonnie or Barbara or something" he said gesturing to Bonnie who was still a bit out of it.
"Why're we in whittmore" he asked aloud.
"Do you know it ?" asked the Doctor taking a step back. Damon shook his head. "You're name tag" he said pointing to the doctor.
"Hey Barbie think you could wake up now... ?" He said staring past her at Bonnie who Lexi was whispering to in the corner. He suddenly realised. He couldn't hear what was being said. He lifted his hand to his face and felt around his mouth for his fangs. Just some stubby canines. He tilted his head to look at Lexi when he caught the doctor staring back at him.
"Fell, Meredith ?" he said finally looking at the doctor. She nodded. "Do you know me ?" she asked quieter than before and Damon felt the room change he shook his head. "I must have heard the nurse say it" he said before reclining back onto the bed.
"yes... Lexi, leave Barbara we have to look at Mr Omar" Lexi nodded and quietly bid Damon and Bonnie farewell.
Damon waited a beat before he spoke.
"Come on Bonnie, we gotta get outta here, Meredith suspects something" He said looking for his jacket. Bonnie still hadn't totally recovered or at least it appeared that way. He stood to his feet albeit a bit wobbily and walked over to her bed and noticed Bonnie was cold to the touch.
"Shit what're they doing to you Bennett"
The council
"Listen to me" said Meredith in frustration.
"Something new has arrived in our world and whatever it is I think it has something to do with the strangers who we found in the woods"
"You mean the little girl who can't keep her eyes open more than two minutes and the asinine man who insists on hitting on every nurse that walks by ?" Said Mason Lockwood drolly.
Meredith sucked in her lip with her frustrations. Mason was a relatively new member of the council, nobody remembered when or where or why just that he was but Meredith did. Meredith always remembered and so she scratched her head. Loosening her pony tail and looked out around the board room to her peers.
"I say we keep them close, we can't let them fall into his hands"
"That's a given !" came Bill Forbes with a righteous cry.
"Why would we ever push them to that freak and his band of sycophants"
"Listen, I'm not saying that we would but it wouldn't be a lie to say that he has gotten bold. He is out there right now. Planning some shit we wont even see coming cause he's a degenerate child with something that hurts my mind to say.
Magic" Meredith uttered the word as if it was a curse, a dirty tarnished word that stole the pockets of chatter around the room and restored all the turned heads to her focus.
"We're here to protect this place" said Bill with a stern nod of the head.
"And we will said Mason," Before Meredith could respond "I'm going to do you a favour Meredith and take the new comers off your hands" He said sitting back in his seat.
"That's a great idea-
"It's really not necessary" said Meredith sitting back down into her seat.
"It'll give us time to go over the war council" said Bill nodding and looking around the room at the various men and women gathered.
"That settles it then" said Mason with a small smile. "I'll have two rooms prepared at the house in Belmarsh" he said loudly.
"Why the woodsy estate ?" asked Bill.
"Your brain gone to mush Bill, we gotta dozen weddings in spring cottage, a festival in the main house on Whittmore and don't tell me you've forgotten we turned the other estate into a safe house" Said Mason shaking his head.
"Oh shit Lockwood... I'm sorry. I know we're asking a lot of your personal-"
Mason shook his head. "Anything to protect our people.. it's what my brother would have wanted" He said sadly
Meredith rolled her eyes and waved her hands. The pretty boy philanthropist was a nice thing to look at but in reality he was boring.
"Is this meeting over ?" asked a tired Giuseppe Salvatore.
"It is" agreed Meredith.
