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Parking Lot

Damon walked up to Sheriff Forbes...making the decision to talk to her later about bringing in those two hunters. Then again if Rose hadn't told him the truth he wouldn't even know who they were. Right now he needed to find Rose.

"Hey." Damon said.

"Thanks for coming so quickly." Liz told him.

"Yeah, I was close by already. What happened?" he asked her.

"Vampire. Luckily one of my men found the body before someone else found it."

They talked a minute longer, then decided to split up to find the killer...granted Damon already knew who it was. What the hell was he supposed to do now? He was thankful that Liz hadn't called the other two men in yet. The last thing he needed was the Winchesters finding Rose before he did...especially since they had history.

Damon walked to where Elena was waiting, she was hanging up the phone after leaving a message for Stefan.

"Have you heard from Stefan?" Elena asked him.

"Baby bro isn't exactly my priority right now." He told her, and then handed her a stake. "Take this."

She took it...and assumed it was in case Rose attacked her.

They both headed off to find her.

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A young girl screamed as her boyfriend's body was thrown onto the windshield of his car, his neck torn and smeared with blood. As she turned to run for help Rose is right in front of her. Rose grabs the girl's shoulders and is about to tear into her when she hears something.

"Rose, stop!" Damon yelled.

She doesn't even recognize him as someone she knows, and Damon can tell from her eyes that she isn't really there. She runs at Damon prepared to attack him, but her decreasing health and his strenth had him flipping her onto her back pinned underneath him.

"Rose stop, it's me...it's Damon."

She struggles against him a few more times before calming down, and the Rose he knows comes back. She looks around, and notices the body of the boy and the poor girl crouched tightly by the car.

"Oh god, did I do this? No, I don't want to hurt anyone...I've never wanted to hurt..." she said, but Damon interrupted.

"I know Rose."

Rose looked at Elena. Why did she have to see this?

"I'm sorry..." Rose shook her head. She didn't think the words were enough.

"Come on, let's get you home."

"No...I don't want to hurt anyone else Damon please..."

He knew what she meant, but right now he needed to get them out of there before Liz found them. Then again, was going back to the boarding house safe? What if those guys were still there? Damon wasn't sure Rose could even deal with them right now, and who's to say they wouldn't just kill her. He didn't have a choice though, she needed to be somewhere safe.

Finally, Damon quickly compeled the girl Rose attacked, and then went back and picked Rose up, and quickly carried her to his car. Elena followed silently, not knowing what to say. She felt bad for Rose.

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Salvatore house. (and yes, the winchesters are still there:)

Elena opened the door for them and Damon tried to get through the house as quickly as possible with Rose in his arms...but as he thought that wasn't going to happen. Dean and Sam had heard them come in and fully intended on speaking to Damon about the vampire, or werewolf problem. Damon sent Elena in to keep them occupied. Sam stayed in the other room, hoping to get information from Elena...but Dean walked straight to where Damon was. However, he definately was not expecting to find Damon with a girl in his arms.

"Now now." Damon told him.

"Look, we may be able to help you so why don't..."

"I said not now, so unless you want your heart ripped from your chest I suggest you move and let me get this taken care of." Damon told them, and he was serious.

Dean looked at him and was pissed. He didn't like the threat...but he noticed how serious Damon was and decided not to fight back. He did know that Damon was most definately not human...but he could hunt Damon later when he didn't have a shaking woman in his arms.

"Go. We'll wait." Dean told him, and intended on letting Damon past...until Rose woke up anyways. She lifted her head off his chest, and Damon had to let her down...but he held her tight as she tried to remain steady on her feet.

"Damon? What's going on...where are we?" She asked quietly.

Dean's face froze the moment he saw her face. No way, that was not possible...