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It was finally morning, and Rose had woken up in the hotel with her confusion from last night not becoming much clearer. However, she was fairly certain she was going back to Mystic Falls. She wasn't sure why, except that she was pretty sure Damon needed her. Even Elena probably needed her. Rose didn't know everything about being a vampire, she didn't know everything concerning the curse and Klaus, but she was still a vampire who had experience with the supernatural elements of their world and she also knew how to come up with ways to get things done. Rose was good at planning, she knew how to get things done.

She was at a small coffee shop. She had a long day ahead, and a couple hours in her SUV on the way to Mystic Falls...she needed her coffee. It wasn't her normal type of place, but it would do...

Rose took her coffee from the counter and turned to leave when she noticed someone sitting at one of the old and rundown tables...a hunter. Crap. Instead of heading out the door, she took a seat at one of the tables where she wouldn't be seen. They would certainly see her leaving, so she hid in plain sight in the shop.

She listening intently, perks of being a vampire.

"You know, it seemed bad enough last year with the whole end of the world problem...thanks to the two morons. Then all that apocolypse stuff seemed to go away, but now we've got too many damned monster problems. I swear its worse now in the freak department than it was last year." the older hunter told his companion. Rose knew him, she was pretty sure she traded a few items with him several years ago.

Apocolypse? What was going on? Sure, she'd be lying if she said she hadn't noticed the freaky weather conditions and that the world was going to hell...but were they serious about an actual apocolypse? Weird. Granted being on the run prevented her from knowing things in the hunters world that she normally would have knew.

"Ya well I guess it keeps the job going...rumour is though those same two are back in the game, I wouldn't be surprised if this spike in supernatural activity was their fault."

"Probably, but I ain't gonna try and find out, we both know what happened to the last hunters who tried hunting those guys down."

Who were they talking about? These two men, were they other hunters or creatures? God Rose desperately wished she was back in the loop, not that she was ever a hunter but she was damned curious.

After a few more minutes of listening to the two old hunters, and learning absolutely nothing, Rose decided to rush out of the cheap coffee shop while the hunters were busy looking at their case files.

Rose had taken her time getting back to Mystic Falls. She'd been away from Damon and Elena for over 24 hours...and had probably missed some vital information. She walked up to the Salvatore's door and let herself in.

"Damon?" she called out, but no response. "Anyone here?"

After a moment, she gave up and went into the study. The glass of bourban sitting around let her know Damon had atleast been here earlier. She made sure to find out while she was on her way to Mystic Falls that Damon and Elena were both fine.

Damon had finally arrived home, and took Alaric's advice to leave Jules alone for the night and lock his doors. He was pissed, he already hated that woman and no one threatened him! Not only was he pissed, but he was on edge. He really needed a drink.

As he closed the door, he heard something from another room. Had Jules beat him? No, the feeling he was getting didn't seem threatening...he walked towards the study, and he relaxed as he saw who was sitting at the desk.

Rose. Of course it was her.

"Just couldn't stay away, could you?" he asked, unimpressed. He wasn't too thrilled to see her here, friend or not. She'd ran and left him and Elena for dead.

"You don't answer your phone." She told him, figuring she could try to break the tension.

"What do you want?" he asked, straight to the point.

She sighed. He was definately mad, and had every right to be. What now? Right, an apology(because that would fix it!).

"I wanted to apologize."

"Right. Just admit it Rose, you have nowhere else to go and nothing better to do."

"Look, I'm sorry about Elena. I should have known better, but I had no idea she had a death wish. I called you though, I tried to make it right. I'm sorry Damon. You're also right, I don't have anywhere else to go...but I do want to help you."

"Sorry Rose, there's nothing here for you."

He almost felt bad for shutting her out...especially after their previous time together. He wasn't going to let her off that easy though, and even more so now with the drama with Elena, Elijah, and then the whole Stefan in a tomb problem. He didn't have time or energy to hear Rose out and explain to her what was happening.

"Well then..." Rose said, obviously hurt by his comment. She tried to not show it and act more annoyed instead...then again maybe she'd just leave instead. Damon had a reason not to trust her now, before she'd never given him a reason not to, but leaving when Elijah came let Damon beleive that Rose only cared about herself...and Damon knew exactly what that was like. He wouldn't trust himself, so why trust Rose?

Before either of them said another word they heard glass shattering in another room, and head towards the noise. Damon picks up a weapon, and both he and Rose slowly look around. Rose hears growling, and pauses for a moment as her mind flashes back to the moment the hellhounds attacked. She manages to snap out of it, this isn't the same sound, and it was only one. As Damon backs up, Rose notices the wolf behind him. Shit! Damon wasn't looking that way, and Rose sees the wolf lean back, ready to attack.

"Damon, watch out!" she shouted, but doesn't give him time to move himself so she blurs towards him to shove him out of the way. She is caught between the wolf and Damon and falls to the floor as she is attacked and bitten.

Damon finally manages to stab the fierce animal in the side, and the wolf flees out the same window. Damon was unsure of how to help Rose, who was in obvious pain. He kneels down, and helps her sit up slowly.

"How bad is it?" He asks her.

"Hurts." She told him slowly, but took deep breaths. "I've had worse." She tried brushing it off, but they both knew the rumour, a werewolf bite was fatal to them.

Then Damon looked releived as he looked at the bite.

"It's healing." He told her.

She looked as surprised as he did.

"Oh god, I thought a werewolf bite was fatal...I thought..." She trailed off, tears in her eyes. After all, how many chances would she really get?

"Shh, it's okay, you're gonna be fine." He told her, and pulled her in for a brief hug.

Somewhere in Kentucky

Dean and Sam were finally back on the road. Sam still didn't remember anything, and Dean was totally okay with that...sure, Sam had found out the truth in that he'd been back the whole time and just had no memories of the past year he spent souless...but it didn't matter. Right now they had a lot to do. Crowley was dead, but this whole Mother of All thing was hanging around and they had a serious monster problem. Crowley was taking these Alphas, or originals of different creatures, for a reason. They had to find out why, and Dean figured the best thing to do now though was to get back into sync with Sam and go on regular hunts.

They'd gotten a tip about a small town in Virginia...seemed like there was an abundance of wierd going on there. First tip was that the town was crawling with vamps, and then something else about a werewolf at one point. With a large amount of death in the town, these didn't seem like the friendly vamps either...not that Dean really beleived there was such a thing.

"So, where we headed?" Sam asked.

"Virginia." Dean told him.

"Yeah I got that...where in Virgina."

"Some town called Mystic Falls I think. Sounds to me like a name out of some rediculous novel."

Sam laughed, he couldn't really disagree with him.

Salvatore Boarding house. An hour after werewolf attack.

Rose walked up to where Damon was sitting on the couch. He handed her a drink, she took it without hesitation.

"Talked to Caroline...she said Tyler was all locked up." He told her.

Rose took a seat right next to Damon on the couch.

"So it was Jules then?" Rose asked...Damon had filled her in a little on the latest events.

"Yeah. I'm sorry." He apologized, and meant it. "I picked a fight with her, she was coming after me."

"It's fine, all's well that ends well."

"You all healed?" He asked her.

"Seems that way." She said, shrugging her shoulders.

"Look Rose, I'm glad the legend was fake. Maybe it was made up to keep vampires away."

Rose smiled. "Lucky Me."

Damon smirked, then reached out and slid his hand along her exposed thigh. Her robe left nothing to his imagination, and he was male afterall, and Rose had just saved his skin. He wasn't used to people trying to save him...and damn his pride he actuallly liked it.

Rose ignored him though, even though she wanted nothing more than give into him.

"I"m going to stay and help you." she told him.

He looked confused for a second. "Help me do what?"

"Save Elena, protect Elena...all things Elena." she answered, laughing a little at that last part.

"Why?"

"I don't know...because I like you." She told him honestly. "I happen to have a vacancy in the friendship department, and you seem to need all the friends you can get."

"Just friends." He smirked, half teasing half serious. He was hoping to get to her, so her answer surprised him.

"Just friends." She agreed. Did she really just say that? Yes, she did. His heart was with someone else, and Rose refused to let herself fall for him.

Rose stands up, and starts to walk away into the other room...but Damon snatches her wrist with vampire speed and pulls her back down to the couch. Fast as she is she doesn't have the time to react before he's kissing her, and good lord could that man kiss!

Finally he pulls away. "Are you sure you can do that?" He whispers, their noses inches apart.

She takes control of herself before answering.

"I don't fall for men who are in love with another woman."

He gave her a funny look, and tried kissing her again...and she did want to give in.

"...but that doesn't mean I can't be your special friend." She teased, and this time let him kiss her. He did and then pulled away.

"And I think I like you." he told her, smiling. They both laughed into the next kiss. She wrapped her arms around his neck as he pulled her closer. Their lips never separated as Damon moved his hands to her shoulder, sliding her robe down.

Rose suddenly pulled away from him, a grimace on her face.

"Ow."

Damon stopped smiling as he pulled her closer to look at the source of her pain. He pulled the sleeve down further...uh oh!

"What the hell?" he asked, staring at the weird mark on her shoulder where the bite had been.

"What?" She asked, trying to turn her head enough to see it, but she couldn't. They looked at each other for a long time..

What now?