Sweet Serial Killer
Category: TV Shows » Vampire Diaries
Author: JustLola
Language: English, Rating: Rated: M

Chapter 9: Chapter 9

Disclaim : I do not own Vampire Dairies. Or any song, movie or artist I refer to in this fanfiction.

Chapter 9

My black fire's burning bright,
Maybe I'll go out tonight.

"That is absolutely absurd!" Klaus was actually yelling, who knew he had it in him. "Elena can't continue being his doctor if that happened, I mean he tried to commit suicide and then she had him walking around the hospital without being confined, which is rather risky. Dangerous!" He says his blue eyes meeting mine for a few seconds and I know that he has a valid point. Yet I never knew how passionate he really felt about this until this morning, how passionate he was about my sociopath. We are currently in Josette's office talking about Damon's suicide attempt and the fact that I let him loose, it wasn't even as bad as it sounded, they were clearly over exaggerating. They have no idea that it wasn't even a suicide attempt as per say, he just didn't like wearing a straitjacket nor handcuffs, I think it was rather well played. And I mean he hasn't done anything to me to make him seem a danger to me or to the other staff or patients. If he wanted to he could have attacked me and Ric last night. Well he did attach me with his mouth… I blush at that shaking my head slowly to rid myself of the thought. He's as harmless as a little bunny rabbit. I think this must be the calming tablets talking. I took them before coming to work. And not just one, I took two for safety because I knew that I was going to get worked up.

I barely slept last night, the only thing that was on my mind was Damon and his lips on mine, I had the most vivid dream about him, kissing me, touching me, fuck I would be lying if I said I wasn't hot and bothered and frustrated. I was beyond frustrated for fucks sake. I almost tried to purchase my very first vibrator on the internet, it only took two days to ship. I shake my head. I should be trying to forget the fact that Damon was clouding my dreams with his body and other parts as well. But it was so hard not to remember his lip on mine, soft like a rose pedal.

"Why not? I don't see the harm in keeping him as my patient?" I find myself saying as I watch Josette and believe me she was not happy about the whole situation if you can even call it that in the first place. This has never happened on her watch, well she never had a patient much like Damon Salvatore, even if she did, she would not be able to handle him, I was barely doing that. He was like nothing else we have ever had in this hospital before, sure we had a few people who tried to commit suicide but that was the reason they were in here in the first place. They didn't try to do it in the hospital.

"He tried to commit suicide Elena, how can that not be seen as serious?" Josette asks and her voice is deadly calm and it frightens me, it was the calm before the storm. "Maybe he has a problem with you." Josette says and I raise a brow because that is bullshit but I knew that she would think that. I just knew that she would think I was not compatible with him when I knew first hand that we were compatible and that he wanted me because Damon was the one who told me he wanted me and no one else. I believed him when he said that. I would like to see either of these brilliant doctors try to have a session with him, just one session. I knew for sure Josette would not be able to handle him. And Klaus? Klaus might just irritate him to the point where we might sit with a murder on our hands. Well that's how I currently felt, I wanted to strangle the shit out of Klaus because he was being a complete ass.

"I'm warning you, do not take my patient. I will not be held accountable or responsible if you take him from me and something does happen." I say as I cross my knee over my leg, I was warning them like Damon had warned me the night before, yet I had no idea what he would do if they did take him away from me. What would he do to them? I mean they could put him away just if he tried something. I doubt he would do something but it's the principle, they couldn't just take him from me, he was my responsibility.

"Clearly you cannot handle your patient so we need to move him, we need to intervene." Josette says and I don't know whether I am angry or hurt or pissed of about what she had just said. This must surely be the rage that she's feeling concerning the current situation. I just cross my arms over my chest as I look to her, well I was trying to intimidate her but I was failing dismally, she was actually serious but the look on her face was apologetic. She didn't believe her own words and she secretly knew that I could handle him.

"I'll be taking him over as my patient." Klaus says and I blink twice, had I just heard him correctly? Did he just say what I thought he had said? Was he going to take Damon away from me? I can't help but feel protective over my patient as I stare at Klaus in disbelief. Was he going to be the doctor that solved the mystery that is Damon Salvatore the Angel of Death galore? I almost laugh at how witty I am but I need to remind myself that we are currently in a meeting and this was a very serious and sensitive matter at hand. I could not just burst out laughing for any reason. I would look like some sort of a maniac. Damon was important, to this hospital and to me, mostly to me but if anything happened to him then it would affect me. So they couldn't just take him from me just because they thought I could not handle him. I was the only one here that was willing to handle him so they were barking up the wrong tree.

"I'm warning you both, leave him in my care. It was one incident and I think it wasn't even to look like a suicide attempt. " I say a bit more loudly earning me two glares from both Klaus and Josette, they didn't believe a word I was saying. What did they think I was not serious? That this was just routine and I was playing around, I actually feel hurt that they think that I am incapable of dealing with my patient, of evaluating him because I was the best at what I did. They didn't see me among themselves and looked down on me, how condescending? This was just a fucked up situation that I really just wanted to wish away.

"Elena just sign the case over to Klaus. Let him just test the field with your patient and see if he can conduct the evaluation." Josette says and I can see that this wasn't even her or Klaus' decision, this was most likely the decision of the State, they must have heard about the incident and now Josette and Klaus was doing damage control, trying to cover up this big mess, that wasn't even a mess in the first place it was a miss conception. The State had no say in how we dealt with our patients, they were our patients after all, but I guess this is what happens if you accept a high profiled case and you get a huge grant to keep him. Typical.

"Fine. But if something happens don't say I didn't warn you." I say as I rise to my feet, I turn on my heel and look to the two behind me, Josette seemed apologetic and Klaus seemed terrified, he actually seems scared that he would be taking over the case. "By the way you're first session with him starts in 10 minutes." I say as a matter of fact and I start to make my way towards the door, I couldn't do anything but do as they asked. They were my superiors so I could not question their decision. I just could not believe that this was happening. Were they really going to take Damon from me just like that? Was I that incompetent to not handle him? I mean I knew why he did it, but they clearly thought he was trying to commit suicide, when in all fact he just didn't want to wear handcuffs, he didn't want to be confided and I could understand that.

"I know. Would you do me a favour and just sit in with this session?" Klaus asks and I stop dead in my tracks as I reach for the door, I lightly place my hand on the door knob, why would he ask such a thing? I wasn't good enough to deal with my patient but he needed another Doctor to sit in when he was handling the same patient, why would he even be considering me watching over his session if he clearly thought that I was incompetent and not worthy. In my right mind I want to decline and tell him no, I want to tell him to go fuck himself but I stop before the words spill from my mouth.

"Sit in on your session?" I ask turning towards both Josette and Klaus as I look aimlessly at them, I can see the fear in his eyes, he doesn't really want to do this, he doesn't want to take this patient but there wasn't getting out of this, they were forcing Damon on him, well maybe it's what he deserves. They wanted to play with the big boys so they needed to figure out how to handle it.

"I'm moving the session to the interview room, you can sit in on the other side of the two way mirror… Please sit in on the session, I really don't know what to expect or how he might react." Klaus says and it's almost like he's pleading me not to leave him alone with Damon, was he really that afraid of the patient? I regard him for a moment, mulling the thought over in my head. He was unsure of himself, he needed an audience to do what he does best, even thou Damon would have no idea that this would be happening, he will be bombarded and surely he would not be too happy about the current arrangement. But I might as well sit in just to make sure Damon surely does not try something with Klaus. But even if he did, what could I do? I would be on the other side of the mirror.

"Do I even have a choice?" I ask raising a brow and I can see Josette's worried look as she looks towards Klaus they clearly didn't know how to treat the patient of handle him but they were looking at me for all the answers, double standards anyone? I would be lying to myself if I said no I didn't want to sit in, I didn't want to look over the session but it might be the last time that I actually get to see Damon before his evaluation can be completed and he's sent back to prison because I know that Klaus would finish it as soon as possible and send him off so he would be someone else's problem. "Fine." I huff and Josette makes eye contact with me as she smiles towards me, she clearly seems relieved that I was willing to do this.

"I'll sit in as well." She says and I raise a brow, okay so we were going to be an audience while Klaus treats the patient. Great. I turn back to the door and I open it pulling it and then I walk out without another word. They were taking Damon from me, I just could not believe that. I didn't want them to take him, I actually wanted to keep him for myself. I wanted to be his doctor. Well I wanted to be more than just his doctor but I would keep that bit of information to myself because no one else needed to know about that and my growing attraction towards him. I start to make my way towards my office, pulling my phone from my pocket.

I was beyond relieved when Marcel found me last night and he had my phone in his hands. I had left it in the car as I suspected, it must have fallen on the floor when I got out. I felt beyond disappointed in myself that I actually thought that Damon would steal my phone from me, he never had that intention. I was happy to see that Marcel had managed to find my car keys as well because when I got here last night my world flipped upside down and the only thing I could think of was my patient and whether he was okay. I didn't care about where I placed my keys or if I might have lost my phone but in the end I found both.

I look at the screen and sigh, I haven't heard anything from Tyler since last night at the restaurant, absolutely nothing. I wasn't sure if I should be okay with it or if I should entertain that little idea that Damon had planted in my head last night that Tyler was actually cheating on me. I couldn't find it in myself to actually care whether he cheated or with who. If he didn't even care enough about me to send me a drunken text or a dumb ass phone call then so be it, I would not waste my time on childish things anymore. I would surely have a talk with Tyler during the weekend and maybe we can establish what the fuck is going on but right now I just wanted to sit in on the session with my former patient and finish my day. I wanted to go home, and drown my frustration with one, maybe two bottles of wine. But I would not keep count, if it lead to three or four bottle or more bottles it wasn't my problem, and I would never know but I would not limit myself.

I walk towards my office placing my phone back into my pocket, but stop in front of Bonnie's office. It seems that she was actually getting her paper work up to date; you know how I can tell that? There were papers scattered everywhere from pillar to post. I poke my head in and look around the room spotting her on the floor next to her desk, she's busy filing something. I raise a brow, with this job came a lot of paper work which Bonnie wasn't very fond of. She delayed it for the longest periods of time hoping someone would just forget about it, but she did not have that luck. Josette must be inspecting patient files again if it looked like this at the moment it could only mean that. Luckily my paper work was done and ready for inspection if Josette decided I was the lucky one which I doubt. She liked picking on Bonnie and Klaus because they didn't keep their files up to date.

"Bonnie?" I call into the room and the dark haired girl looks up, her glasses on the tip of her nose, her mouth slightly a-jar as she looks to me in complete wonder and I almost want to pinch her cheeks and tell her how adorable she looks right now. She almost seemed surprised that I was standing in here in the door frame watching her. I really haven't had time to speak to my long-time friend since earlier this week, we have both been so busy with patients and sessions. I should maybe invite her over during the weekend for some girl time. It would be well deserved after the stressful week we had.

"Hey Lena. What's up?" she asks as she looks down to the patient file she was currently busy with, I recognised it as Enzo Rodrigues file. The poor man lost his girlfriend and their unborn baby in a car accident, it wasn't even his fault but he blamed the whole incident on himself. He couldn't handle the post-traumatic stress and he ended up trying to jump of off Wickery Bridge, let me just say that he failed because the fall only hurt, it wasn't enough to kill and since then he has been in Bonnie's care. She saw him at least three times a week seeing that he needed health care and psychological care. He was getting better and better with each passing day and that's why we were here in the first place right? To help people get better. But secretly I think that had to do with the fact that he liked Bonnie, I saw the stares and glances he gave her when no one was looking. The feeling wasn't mutual from Bonnies side thou and she only saw him as a patient.

"Not much. You busy with filing?" I ask as I walk into her small office but I stopped near the door, her office was much like my own, but at least she had a decent view of the gardens that surrounded the hospital. I only had a small window that was rarely opened due to the fact that the wind kept on blowing my papers away. But even if I didn't have a view, I was comfortable in my office and I liked it because it had a sense of being home since I never spent much time at home that is. But I could upgrade some of the decorations and I would eventually if I got around to it.

"Ground control to Captain Obvious." Bonnie says a bit sarcastically rolling her eyes as she starts looking around for a paper that she was looking for. I could help her if I really wanted to. But then again I had a session to attend to in a few minutes and once I got busy with her paper work there would be no end until everything was up to date. "Josette wants to do performance ratings and now she wants to check the patient files." Bonnie says as she finally sees the document that she wants and she takes it placing it in the file with a triumphed smile. "How was date night last night?" she asks and at this I look to the ground, I looked anywhere but her eyes and she looks to me raising a brow. "What happened Gilbert?" she asks and I just smile shaking my head from side to side.

"You didn't get the memo on my patients' suicide attempt last night?" I ask folding my arms over my chest. She frowns, no she had not heard about it, so she would have no clue about what was going on concerning Damon at the moment or she would not be giving me this dumbstruck look right now. "Yeah, so I ditched Tyler and came to the hospital to make sure my patient was okay." I say casually leaning against the door frame.

"Spill the beans and tell me all about it." She says as she closes the file and she places it on the ground next to another pile of papers that still needed to be sorted and filed. Her attention now completely on me as she stares at me in anticipation. I wasn't even sure what I was going to tell her. There was nothing to really say but I wasn't sure to what she was referring to as well. There was two incidents.

"The part where I ditched Tyler or the part where I rushed to the hospital to check on my patient?" I ask and now she's glaring at me as she looks around, she moves a few stray papers aside and then she has her shoes in her hands and she rises to her feet, slipping on her shoes as she goes, I almost laugh but this is how I knew Bonnie, she did her best filing without any shoes to trap her feet. She always told me that she didn't like her feet to be covered and if she could she would walk around bare foot each and every day.

"You don't look happy about Tyler so start there. Where it all began." Bonnie says walking around her table and she takes a seat on the white leather couch that is off to the side, she motions towards me to join her but I shake my head because I still needed to leave her office soon and once I sit down I was not going to get up. Because when we get started we don't stop and this session between me and her might continue well into our afternoon if we were not careful.

"I think he's cheating on me." I start and her mouth goes slack as her eyes go wide in disbelieve, Bonnie didn't believe anything bad about Tyler, to her he was the best option for me, the best candid. He was my one and only according to her and she had this grand vision of me walking down the aisle with him. I highly doubt that that would happen. "I mean he's secretive and stuff and just the way he was reacting or the lack there of, I mean we've been dating for a few months now and we still haven't had sex." I find myself saying and she just stares at me like I was lying or what she was hearing was complete nonsense. And here I was telling her the truth. But Bonnie rarely saw the bad in people she focussed on the good.

"Are you serious right now?" she asks and I just nod my head, pulling this funny face that indicated that I was not sure but I was serious. She almost laughs at that but stops as she furrows her eyes.

"I mean I heard rumours that he was hooking up with Olivia, and I'm not sure if they are true or not but I know that I would be devastated if it was true." I say running my hand through my hair in the process. I needed to make an appointment at my hair dresser, I was starting to get split ends. The sooner the better.

"Where did you hear that?" Bonnie asks and I look to the side of the office and then out of the door before I was sure there wasn't someone listening in on us before I dare speak. And I was not going to tell her that I heard this from Damon because that would just be outrageous. Then she would have a total field day, she would say I am crazy to believe anything that he was saying but then again that was what I thought but the more I thought of it the more I started to believe him, it actually made sense to the point where I was pretty sure that he was cheating on me, I just needed the proof before I would totally kick him to the curb for once and for all.

"Nurses like to gossip." I say, my eyes focusing on her once again. I sounded unsure as the words leave my mouth but I have never been so sure in my entire life. "And sometimes they do tell the truth you know." I continue to say and this time I sound a bit more sure about my facts.

"That's just insane. What do you think thou?" She asks her demeanour now serious as her eyes meet mine. I hated when she looked at me like that, all the playfulness of our friendship gone, it almost felt like she was psychoanalyzing me, but that would not be the instant because she knew better as to do that with me.

"I think that there might be a possibility but I don't have proof so we'll see what happens if something happens. I might just confront him during the weekend." I say as I turn to look at the clock hanging above her diploma. I can still remember the day that she got her diploma, well we got our diploma's together, then everything was still good, so care free. Now it has completely changed. It was almost time to go to the interviewing room and watch Klaus with my former patient. "Did you here Klaus is taking over Salvatore?" I say as I completely change the subject, I didn't want to speak about Tyler any further it was unnerving me and at this Bonnie frowns, she didn't know that as well, hell what did she know on this hospital? I mean there was a staff meeting or rather a de-briefing session this morning and I am sure that Josette discussed this matter with the rest of the staff including her as well. I just didn't attend it this morning. I didn't need it and I was already part of the situation so it was irrelevant for me to be there.

"What?" she asks in disbelieve.

"Yeah after the whole 'suicide attempt' they will be moving my patient to Klaus. He's going to start his first session in a few minutes, want to go and watch with me?" I say and Bonnies eyes lights up like the fourth of July. Why on earth would she get this excited about a mere session? It wasn't like Klaus was going to conduct a session with Lebron James. Then she would really have a reason to light up like that. Was she fascinated by my former patient?

"I would love to, I mean you never talk about your session with him and I still want to see what he's like. I want to see for myself what all the fuss is about concerning Salvatore." She all but blabbers as she rises to her feet again this time a bit faster and a bit more eager. I knew her words were true, but I believed in confidentiality when it came between a patient and a doctor. I rarely spoke to other doctors about my patients unless I was unsure about something or I needed advice or mentorship. I didn't like to advertise my session thus they were always isolated. Even my patients were isolated from other patients. It wasn't that I did not trust my patient but I just needed to build a concrete relationship with them in order to figure out what is wrong, and I needed them to trust me and there was no way someone will trust you if you were being dodgy.

"Then let's get going or we might just be late." I say as I turn and we start to make our way out of her office into the main hall to the investigation room, this auto be interesting. I actually wanted to see Damon's reaction and I wanted to observe Klaus. I wanted to see how he was going to handle my patient. And the method he would use to evaluate my former patient. I doubt that Damon would co-operate with Klaus, even speak to him. Damon would not like this one bit.

"How do you feel about the fact that they are moving your patient to Klaus?" Bonnie says from behind me and I look to her over my shoulder. I couldn't tell her that I was pissed off, and angry and displeased. She would know there was something else then, besides Bonnie knew me all too well and she would catch on pretty quick and that was the last thing that I needed right now. I needed to be unaffected by the fact that my patient was being taken away from me, and Bonnie should know better than to try her psychological approach with me by asking how I feel about situations.

"Incompetent." I reply as the interview room comes into view, I didn't want to go in that room. I remember watching my patient eat lunch in here earlier this week. Now I was going to watch as another doctor try his best to evaluate him. We move into the room swiftly and the interview room was still empty so that meant that Damon was still on his way. They hadn't fetched him yet. I move to the far left of the interview room and take a seat farthest from the door leading out of the room and the door leading into the interviewing room, Bonnie following suite as she takes the seat next to me.

"Won't Klaus mind if we observed?" I hear Bonnie say and I shake my head from side to side. She didn't know that he wanted me to sit in so I would need to tell her or she might think I was undermining my superiors. Sometimes she was too much of a goody-goody for her own good. The good girl façade was getting old really fast because I knew she was naughty if you can state it like that.

"He wants me to sit in so I doubt he is going to mind it of you join in." I say as a matter of fact and that's when Josette decides to enters the room, she looks to Bonnie and frowns and then to me, she gives me half a smile as she takes her seat near the door to the interview room. "You really think Klaus will be able to handle him?" I ask mainly just wondering aloud as I look towards Josette as she takes her seat next to Bonnie. Bonnie sees this little exchange and she frowns before looking to Josette as well.

"I'm not sure what to expect for either Klaus or the patient so we will have to see." Josette says looking back to the interview room that still looks as empty as it did a few seconds ago. I watch as the other door to the right opens, the first person to enter the room is Klaus, he has a file with a pen and something else I do not recognise in his hands. He walks around the table and stops in front of the empty chair as he takes the object I now recognise as hand cuff and I furrow my brows, what was Klaus going to do with the hand cuffs? Why did he even bring them into the interviewing room? I look Josette and she frowns as she looks from me back to Klaus. Was Klaus going to handcuff Damon when he got here?

I watch as he pulls the chair out and he takes a seat, he places the file next to the handcuffs and then he looks towards his watch as if he's looking at how much time he had left before Damon would join him in the small confines of the investigation room. I can see he didn't want to be in here, that he didn't want to evaluate the patient. He looks stressed, I can see it in the way that he's seated, in the way he fidgets with the file and push it with his fingers back and forth and then he moves the handcuffs from side to side and then back and forth. It's starting to make me feel uneasy as I watch him, not even taking my eyes of off him.

It seems like the wait for Damon to arrive is taking forever because usually he was in the session room before I walk in, they always had him ready early. What could be the cause today that he might be late? But soon the door is opened and he walks into the room his hands at his side, his head hanging, his hair hiding his face from my view. I notice Bonnie, and how she tenses up in her seat as she looks towards him, she's intrigued by the man on the other side of the mirror and I would be lying if I said that the feeling was not mutual but I was more than just intrigued. I see Ric walk in behind Damon but only to the point where he steps towards the other chair and he pulls it out and gracefully takes a seat in front of Klaus. He's wearing a new set of clothes, these are not the same as the ones I had gotten for him last night. His wrists still bandaged and covered but no indication that the wounds has started bleeding again. They still seem clear and white like the walls of the hospital.

Damon sits in his seat, but he's not slouched over like he usually is when I walk in to the room. I watch the door being closed as Ric finally leaves and then a few seconds later Ric joins us in the interview room, taking a seat next to Josette, I notice the small exchange between then but say nothing of it because it was not my place. Ric was also going to sit in on this session. I find it highly strange that there are four people sitting in listening to a session when it was actually patient / doctor confidentiality. I would never have allowed this. But then again this wasn't me, this was Klaus and he wanted a crowd to watch. He required an audience.

Damon looks up to Klaus who seems unaffected by the presence of the other male in the room. He just folds his arms over his chest and he stares at Damon. His glare is actually intimidating but I watch as Damon smirks shaking his head from side to side before looking down towards his lap. This was going to be quite interesting because I could already see Damon resisting.

"I am Doctor Michaelson. I will from now on be your doctor during your stay at the hospital." Klaus starts, seeming very professional, Damon looks up towards him in surprise maybe it was shock but it was completely fake because he already knew that he would change his doctors, he was playing him. But I can't help but wonder as I think I see a bit of disbelieve as well in Damon's eyes as he regards Klaus for a few seconds. "Due to your little incident last night, you will no longer be in the care of Dr. Gilbert." Klaus continues to explain what is going on and I can see how the cogs in Damon's mind starts to turn as he soaks up this new information. I can see the disapproving look he gives Klaus and I frown.

"Why?" Damon asks, I am actually surprised that he had spoken even if it was only one word, I find myself missing that velvet voice that belongs to him. I glance towards Josette, Bonnie and Ric and they seem beyond themselves that the patient has actually spoken. This was the first time that they had witness him speak since he was apprehended by the police. It was shocking the first time I heard him as well but the more we spoke the better it got. I look back to Klaus waiting for his answer and explanation.

"For all we know it was because of Dr. Gilbert that you tried to commit suicide." I listen to every word that leaves Klaus' mouth, Klaus is pushing Damon's buttons and that was not something that I would recommend but I can see that Damon doesn't believe it for one second he would sure deny it if given the chance. "Do you have a problem with Dr. Gilbert?" Klaus asks and Damon's eye flash around the interview room for a second like a rat looking for a way out of its cage. There was something seriously wrong about his reaction and this situation, he looked like a caged animal that was ready to do something unexpected.

"We need to get in there." I almost whisper and I can feel three pairs of eyes on me as they stare at me in disbelieve. But I was dead serious as I watch the scene in front of me.

Before Klaus can even continue, or get a word out otherwise I watch in slow motion as Damon rise to his feet in an instant, his chair falling down on the ground with a bang as he lunges forward to reach towards the handcuff, grasping them in one hand. Klaus is frozen in his spot as he watches in horror as this happens and soon the table is pushed to the side by my former patient, it tumbles to the wall making a loud nose and Damon rushes forward towards Klaus, turning the edge of the handcuff inside out revealing the sharp end with the rived edge. I don't know who is more shocked, me, Josette or Klaus as we watch the raven haired man approach Klaus with stealth that I did not know he possesses.

Damon grabs Klaus by his doctor's jacket and soon he is thrown to the wall with so much force that his head makes a thud sound. Klaus' head hits the two way mirror with such intensity that we only see blood and spilt cover the mirror from where his face connected with the mirror. I notice Bonnie pushing back, next to me and soon she is on her ass on the floor staring at the window in horror, she was not used to this, to these outburst by patients. Her patients never did something remotely like this. Josette's hand rises to cover her mouth that is ajar as she looks on in pure shock. Ric is complete frozen as he looks at the two men in the other room.

I feel like everything around me is moving in slow motion, time is passing to slowly to comprehend what the hell was really going on as I watch Damon, he has completely lost it as he pulls Klaus from the mirror and he punches him square in the jaw before almost throwing him against the mirror again, he uses so much force that I feel the impact on the other side of the window, it lightly vibrates on our side. I stare in disbelieve as Damon continues to beat the living hell out of Klaus, the blood trickling from his nose and mouth. We needed to stop this, we needed to stop Damon or he would surely kill Klaus if he continued.

Ric sets in motion and he is on his feet as he reaches for the door pulling it wide open, he rushes into the room without a second thought, Josette follow closely behind but as soon as they enter the interviewing room Damon grabs a hold of Klaus, almost choking him with his grip as he pulls him flush against his body, Klaus' back to his chest, he places the sharp edge of the handcuffs to Klaus' neck. Both Ric and Josette stop in their tracks as they look at my patient and Dr. Michaelson. The fear that I see in Klaus's eyes are nothing that I have ever seen before. It was real pure fear as I look at them through the two way mirror. I watch Josette put her hands up in the air, motioning that she surrenders. Ric has his tranquilized gun in his hands, it's pointed towards Damon's direction but this does not stop Damon and he continue to hold Klaus in his vice grip almost cutting of his air supply in the process.

"Where is Dr. Gilbert?" Damon sounds completely calm as his voice rings into the interviewing room filling each corner of the side room where I am currently in. I watch Ric pointing the gun towards him but this only makes him tighten his grip around Klaus' neck. Klaus struggles against Damon as he tries desperately to get away from the deranged lunatic but it seems the more he struggles the more Damon tightens his grip on him. Josette looks from Damon to Ric in the interview room and then she looks towards me, I'm not even sure that Damon knows I am in the room right next to him. "Should I repeat myself?" Damon asks a bit louder placing the sharp edge more firmly to Klaus' neck. This only made Klaus move more, fidget more. He was desperately seeking release.

"Please let Dr. Michaelson go." I hear Josette's soft voice as she starts to speak to Damon, she focusses back on Damon but he's not having any of that, her soft approach meant nothing to him and would get them nowhere. I never thought that his threat of last night was real and now here we were with the current situation. Klaus' life hanging in the balance because they did not want to listen to me and I took his threat lightly. Josette starts to speak again. "We can work this out without violence Mr. Salvatore." Josette says but this only made Damon glares towards her, he didn't like being called Mr. Salvatore but he starts to laugh as he shakes his head towards her.

"I want Dr. Gilbert. Now." Damon says in a demanding tone as he looks to the mirror and it's almost like he can see me on the other side of the window but his expression remains blank indicating that he can't see through the mirror. "Bring me Dr. Gilbert or this pathetic excuse of a human being will no longer continue to live." Damon says, he is serious and I could tell that by the tone of his voice, he was in no mood to play around or bargain with. So we better do as he asks and I should avail myself before Klaus would be sent away to the morgue in a body bag.

"Dr. Gilbert is no longer your doctor…" Josette counters but she is stopped when Damon presses the sharp edge of the handcuffs more firmly again Klaus' neck to the point where Klaus yelps in pain, but his movement seizes all together, he shouldn't even be moving because that only agitated Damon more. I watch as a few drops of blood making themself known as they starts to roll down from where the object has punctured his skin. If we didn't do anything, Klaus was really going to die and I didn't want his death on my hand. I knew I had warned them, but why didn't they just listen to me in the first place, because they think that they are better than me, they knew more than me. Now look what happened.

"Dr. Gilbert now, or he dies." Damon demands a bit louder. I look to Josette my eyes wide as I look back to him through the mirror and then back to her. I just nod my head towards her, indicating that she should just let me go into the interview room but she shakes her head from side to side stopping me in the process. Damon was going to kill Klaus if I didn't show up soon. I was sure of that, and I did not want to bury Klaus just about yet. She should not be hot headed right now and not give Damon want he desperately wanted.

"Okay." Josette finally says after a few second, but that might be because Klaus was starting to change colour in his face due to the lack oxygen, I take a deep breath, my legs are shaking as I start to move towards the door but a hand on my arm stops me before I can go any further.

"Don't," I hear Bonnie whisper from where she is still sitting on the ground but I pull my arm from her grip pleading her with my eyes to let me do this, she only looks towards the mirror then back to me but I only shake my head and I take that last step towards the door until I am finally visible in the door frame next to Josette making my presence known to the man that is now holding Klaus hostage, his eyes look to me, searching mine and he almost looks like a lost little child as his expression softens. I stop at the door frame as I look to him, my eyes wide with the sight of him choking Klaus, it made me feel faint as I just look to them.

"Damon…" I breathe out and he smirks when he hears my voice but he does not loosen his grip from Klaus, he keeps him in place. "Please don't hurt Dr. Michaelson." I continue, pleading with him somewhat not to hurt Klaus any further and at this Damon frowns. Like he doesn't know what was going on. Why was I pleading to him to let this man go, to not touch him or hurt him anymore? Like he disapproved that I would feel anything towards this man.

"I won't." He says but he still remains in the same position as he looks to me. I take a step further in to the room and I can see the looks I am getting from both Josette and Ric, they didn't approve of this, they didn't like it one bit but if I wasn't going to do this I don't know how I was going to get Klaus safely out of this room. Well I really didn't care at the moment if they approved it or not, I had to do this to ensure the safety of my fellow colleague even if I didn't approve of his antics and tactics sometimes. But Klaus surely did not deserve to die, not today. If he was going to die it would be far in the future when he was old and he had lived his live to his full potential.

"Would you let him go?" I ask as I take another step but this time I feel Josette as she grabs a hold of me stopping me from going closer to Damon. I look to her and I am pleading to her with my eyes to trust me. I knew what I was doing or I think I did and what I was getting myself into. I knew no one in this building trusted Damon, but I trusted him enough that he would not hurt or harm me. I look to his eyes and he seems conflicted for a moment as he looks to me. This seemed to be a do or die situation for him, he had to flee or fight. I pull my arm from Josette grip and stand more firmly as I look to him. "Please?" I ask. I watch his expression soften even more, slightly loosening his grip on my a-steamed colleague neck.

Klaus finally takes in a breath, he almost pants as he looks towards me. He was in complete shock as he stood there. But I couldn't focus on Klaus at the moment, I needed to focus on Damon, he needed to let go of Klaus and we needed to get Klaus out of here or Damon might still do something to him. "Before I let him go I want to set a few things straight. I want to make a few deals." Damon says as his expression hardens again and he looks past me towards Josette and Ric standing behind me, now he was speaking mainly to them.

"What do you…" I am interrupted as I hear Josette clear her voice.

"You are not in a position to make deals or bargains," Josette counters. This was the worst thing she could possible do. She was fighting a losing battle and if she didn't give Damon what he wanted something was going to happen to poor Klaus. Damon raises an eyebrow and then tightens his grip around Klaus' neck yet again choking him somewhat.

"On the contrary Dr. Laughlin." Damon starts, I hear Josette gasp, because how on earth did he know who she was? I'm a bit surprised as well but I keep my ground. "You have no other choice, or you might as well start making arrangements for Dr. Michaelsons funeral." At this I take another step towards Damon and now he was in my reach as I place a hand on his arm softly gripping him and he stops all movement, his arm going slack around Klaus' neck.

"Please don't hurt him." I plead as I stare into his ice blue eyes. "I'll listen to you deals, we can talk about it, but please just don't hurt him." I continue. Damon seems agitated by the fact that I was trying to get this man away from him. But he needed to understand I was just concerned about his safety. I really didn't want anything to happen to him if he might just kill Klaus and at this moment in time it was a sure possibility.

"I want Dr. Gilbert to remain as my doctor." Damon says more loudly, this is now pointed toward Josette and I have no say in it, it was her decision. "This is not a deal or a request but a demand." Damon continues slowly moving the handcuffs away from Klaus' neck, loosening his grip around his neck as well. I look over my shoulder to where Josette is glued to her spot, her eyes wide as saucers as she looks towards us. I can hear Klaus desperately trying to gather oxygen in his lungs as soon as Damon's grip is no longer choking him.

"Would you let Dr. Michaelson go if I agree?" Josette asks. My eyes remain on her, I can feel Damon tense up under my touch but he relaxes instantly, letting go of Klaus, we didn't expect him to loosen his grip on Klaus thus Klaus fell to the floor with a thud. I look back towards Damon and Klaus as Damon continues to stare at Josette for the longest of moments. I wonder what was going on in his mind right about now as I look into his eyes, they seem strained. "Dr. Gilbert will remain your doctor." I hear Josette finally say and I feel so relieved that I almost pull away from Damon. But my hand remains on his arm as he straightens up, the handcuffs still in his grip as he regards everyone in the room.

"I kindly request no more handcuffs." Damon asks, I frown towards him, didn't he know that he didn't have the upper hand anymore, that Josette can decline all and any further request that he might make now that he has released Klaus, but then again Klaus was merely a foot away from him and he could easily get a hold of him again, and I was here as well, so Damon was at a vantage point at the moment, if he didn't get what he wanted then he could do something to both of us.

"Don't make absurd requests. We need to confine you." Josette says and I am surprised by the authority in her voice as she speaks to Damon.

"I'll behave… as long as Dr. Gilbert remains my doctor. No more violent outbursts." Damon says. I think he can tell that I am shivering as I listen to them, I wasn't scared I was just apprehensive because this was not what we had expected and this had gotten out of hand for sure. "Besides your security guard over there can vouch for me, I'm completely harmless when with her." Damon continues as a matter as fact. I know I am in no position to say or request anything but this was a ticking time bomb and we needed to defuse it as soon and as fast as possible.

"I have a suggestion." I mumble and I watch as Damon's eyes move to mine, he regards me for a second.

"No, no more requests, no suggestions." I hear Josette say and we both turn towards her, my hand leaving his skin, and I instantly miss it, I miss his skin, the feel of it, the softness.

"I would like to hear Dr. Gilbert suggestion." Damon indicates and this is a very strange and awkward situation that I am currently in. But then again nothing about this was rational or normal. "Dr. Gilbert seeing that you are my doctor what would your suggestion be?" Damon asks, I want to look at him but I refrain from doing so. But I needed to figure out a way to get both Josette and Damon to calm down and act civil, I needed to ensure that both are happy before I could be happy. I had to suggest something that would keep the balance.

"Josette you want the patient to be confined, the patient is requesting that we do not handcuff him, my suggestion, when we convey the patient from and to places he will wear a straitjacket. It's a simple solution." I say and this sounds beyond ridiculous but it made sense to me and I am sure that both parties would agree to it. I mean Damon didn't say anything about the straitjacket thus we could use it. I watch as Josette looks to me then to Damon and then she looks to Ric, her arms folded over her chest as she contemplate whether or not this was actually a good idea.

"I'll agree to that." I hear Damon from behind me. But the thing was he didn't need to agree, Josette just needed to approve the idea.

"We need a guaranty that you won't try anything like this or what you did last night ever again." Josette finally says after a few moments of silence. She was giving him a rather hard deal, and I knew that he would slip up one way or another. "One slip up and we take Dr. Gilbert away, and we confine you at all times and you go back to where you came from." Josette says and I raise a brow. I knew Damon could do it if he really wanted to, he could be good and he could refrain from hurting anyone and staying out of trouble but the question was if he would.

"Deal." Damon replies from behind me.