"Wait, so let me get this straight," Stiles whispers, pausing to collect his thoughts, his long, thin fingers curled around Derek's wrist tight enough to bruise.
"I am a vampire. A blood sucking, immortal, stronger-than-a-werewolf, vampire."

Derek, Scott and Isaac all nod in unison and the fact that Erica is missing from his 'bedside' doesn't go unnoticed from his now super keen eyes.

"Your cousin Caroline is on her way, she said something about you still having vampire blood in your system when you were killed from when someone called Damon fixed up a gaping hole in your throat."

Stiles chuckled nervously at Derek's tone, ducking his head to hide the blush on his cheeks that never formed.
Oh yeah, undead vampires don't blush. Go figure.

"Okay, so I'm a vampire, that's cool, we can totally deal with this. Caroline has probably already gotten her witch friend Bonnie to make me a daylight ring and I'll just drink blood from blood bags like Caroline does and you guys can be my anchor's so I don't switch off my humanity and kill everyone in a 10 mile radius! Problem solved!"

The three wolves shrug without comment, frowns marring their faces.

"What, what's wrong? What aren't you guys telling me?"

Scott and Isaac shuffle uneasily, diverting their eyes whilst Derek just tugs Stiles closer to him.

"Quite a lot unfortunately Little Genim."

'Oh god please no.'

"Damon Salvatore, as I live and breathe." Stiles drawls.

Damon smirks, flanked by a scowling Caroline. "Well, not necessarily."

XXX

"So I'm a broken vampire? Fan-fucking-tastic!"

Damon rolls his eyes from his spot lounging on the window sill. "You're not broken, just deficient. You're humanity 'switch'," he announces in a bored tone, using his fingers to make lazy quotation marks in the air, "Is faulty."

"It might be because of your ADHD," Caroline inserts helpfully, her blue eyes even brighter than Stiles remembers them being.

"Or the fact that you're a, y'know, totally over emotional, impulsive kid and being a vampire has enhanced everything you were as a human. In your case that also includes all the guilt you feel over your mom and blah blah blah," Derek glares at Damon over Stiles' shoulder, tightening his hold around his waist.

"Anyway, guilt is the key to turning off your humanity, and with how much you have holed up inside you, along with being a neurotic head case," and that earns him three identical warning growls in return. "Geez, down boys. As I was saying before I was rudely interrupted by Kujo over here is that you have this, lets call it a tornado-of-emotions, inside of you and being a vampire means everything is magnified by like 100 percent and the only way your mind knows how to cope is by switching off your humanity until it feels like it can deal with it and flicks the switch back on." Damon pauses, letting his words sink in whilst looking thoughtful before finishing off by saying, "My, friend, Elena had the same problem at first."

Stiles takes a deep breath focusing every ounce of his concentration on staying in control. This was a lot to take in, like a lot, a lot.

"Okay, how do we fix this?"