Salvatore Boarding House(a few hours after last chapt)

Rose was sitting on the end of the same couch she'd fallen asleep on a few hours earlier. She didn't look like she had earlier though, the pain from the bite had obviously worsened.

Damon walked back in to the room. He'd been trying to avoid listening to anything Elena and Stefan were saying or doing upstairs.

"You know, I really shouldn't be alive...well 'undead'. So I can die, I've lived longer than I was supposed to anyways."

"Hey if you're gonna act all morbid already I'm just gonna kill you myself to put me outta your misery." He half teased.

She gave him an annoyed look, he grinned.

"Come on, it's just a little werewolf bite." He said, trying to keep his tone light.

"Oh right, just a little 'fatal to a vampire' werewolf bite. No big deal huh?"

"Only according to legend...which is a notoriously unreliable source."

Damon hands her a glass of blood, and she takes it hesitantly.

"Go on drink up, blood heals."

He stared at her as she drank it. Rose then turned to look at him.

"You're right, I think it's working."

Damon walked over to her. "Let me see."

Rose turned slighty so that her back was to him, he pulled her tank top away from her shoulder. What he saw however wasn't something that seemed to be getting better, in fact it was worse. Crap.

"How does it look?" she asked.

Damon hesitated, he didn't really want to answer her.

"Definately better." he finally said, then heard Elena pass by. "Right Elena?" he said louder than he needed to, and motioned for Elena to say something.

Elena was surprised by the wound. Damon called that better? Poor Rose.

"Um yeah it's not too bad." Elena lied.

Rose kept quiet...however she was not an idiot. They were totally lying to her, she knew that much.

"Where's Stefan?" Damon asked Elena quietly.

"He left. I need you to talk to him, he's convinced he needs to find Isobel and I think that's going to piss off Elijah."

"No can do, I'm with Stef on this one...but hey if you could play nurse for a little while..." he trailed off, nodding towards Rose.

Rose turned to them. She didn't need a babysitter.

"That's not necessary." She told them.

"Sure it is. Elena's a do gooder. It's in her nature, she can't resist."

Elena looks a little annoyed, but then nods. Damon heads to the door, Elena follows him. She stops him after the make it all the way to the door.

"Damon...is she going to die?" Elena asked. Her and Rose didn't have the best start and she was still annoyed about Rose calling Damon, but she didn't want to see her die either.

"Probably. The bite caused some sort of infection, it's getting worse."

"What like a poison?"

"I don't know Elena. I'm not exactly an expert in this field." He whispered harshly.

"I'm sorry."

"Death happens. Sooner she dies the better, it's gloomy as hell in here." He then turned and walked out. Elena was put off by his harsh words, but then she thought for a moment and realized that he was lying.

Elena walked back in to where Rose sat. Rose turned to look at her, if she'd heard anything that Elena and Damon had said she most certainly didn't show it.

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The boys stood up from their seats in the sherriff's office after spending the last hour discussing things. It took a little while to figure out that this lady knew about vampires. Dean quickly told her that he and Sam could take care of the vampire problem.

"Thanks for your time Sherriff Forbes. Do me a favor, don't mention to the others about our job, it needs to be kept secret." Dean said, referring to the police officers and anyone else in charge.

Liz agreed. No one else needed to know they were here...she hoped Damon wouldn't be mad that she'd been happy to have more help brought in.

Once they left her office, Dean and Sam headed back for the impala.

"So, this whole purgatory monster thing...you think it has anything to do with why this towns crawling with vamps?" Dean asked Sam.

"Don't know, either way we treat it like any other vampire hunt."

Dean agreed. His last few vampire encounters hadn't been pleasant. There was Gordon, then this year Dean had nearly been turned himself. He was definately ready to kill a few vampires.