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Dean wanted to say so many things, had so many questions but in that very moment he just couldn't get it out.
"Nothing Rose...why don't we get you upstairs okay." Damon tried to usher her towards the stairs.
Rose finally looked at Dean. Oh shit...she was hallucinating again! Well she was thought for certain she was hallucinating about Dean...but Damon's voice was loud and real and she wasn't so sure.
Dean wasn't sure what to do...this was Bela right? I mean, it looked like her face, it sounded like her voice...ok so the hair wasn't the same, neither was the name, and she looked like hell. Speaking of hell...he was pretty sure that's where Bela was supposed to be. She'd had like a half hour or less to live when he'd hung up, how could she have lived?
"Rose..come on okay, you'll feel better once you lay down." Damon tried again. "You don't need to deal with all this right now."
What Damon just said woke her up a little more to the fact that maybe this really was happening, that maybe Dean bloody Winchester was standing in the hall of the Salvatore's home. It also snapped Dean out of his shock...a little bit.
"Bela?" Dean questioned. "Unless I'm insane. Tell me it's not true."
Rose waited a beat. Damon wanted to compel Dean to go sit the hell down...but Rose was still standing at that moment and until she said otherwise he was going to let it go.
She could deny it...tell Dean that he was fu*king crazy and act like she had no idea who the hell Bela was. She was so tired, in so much pain...she didn't expect to ever see him again, after all he was supposed to be dead as well...had he killed Lilith and saved himself? She was too miserable to lie anymore though, so she didn't deny it...though she did try to keep her wit.
She gave Dean a look, and he knew. She didn't even have to say it aloud but he knew. He had a good memory, and that look mixed with her eyes said everything.
"Give it a few more hours and I will be." she whispered, accent thicker than usual. She was completely serious too.
He didn't even have a reply at first.
Sam walked into the hall and he was about to speak when he saw what Dean was looking at...or rather who. It took him a moment to really stare to make sure.
"Oh my God Bela?" Sam was shocked.
"Who's Bela?" Elena asked, having just walked in behind him, then noticed they were looking at Rose. Oh...right, Rose's past.
Dean wanted to ask her how she survived...but then he remembered the whole thing with the werewolf bite and it being able to kill a vampire.
"You turned into a vampire to get out of your deal?" Dean asked, a bit disgusted.
Rose looked down...she really didn't want to talk to him of all people about this. This was Dean, he was all about the black and white, he certainly never understood the real her...he would probably want to kill her but Rose thought that maybe he could end all of her pain right now. If Dean killed her all of this would be over.
She nodded slowly...she didn't have the energy to tell him she didn't do it on purpose, she was so tired.
"Alright stop. Unless you know of a cure why don't you back off, it's obvious she's not in the best condition to argue with you, and for the record she did not choose to be a vampire." Damon stepped in. Dean starting an argument with Rose wasn't going to end well for her, and he really didn't wanna have to go out and save her again.
"Damon it's okay, I can handle..." Rose started, but then suddenly started seeing spots and feeling numb as she slid down in Damon's arms.
"Ok that's it for you." He said, and picked her up again. "I'm taking her upstairs...if you want to live past tonight I suggest you leave her be."
Sam started to step forward and argue, but Dean stopped him. Sam then backed off. Dean wasn't ready to pick a fight with a vampire...not that he couldn't handle it but right now wasn't the time.
Damon carried Rose upstairs. Elena followed.
"Dean..."
"Yeah Sam, I know. Bela's alive, and a vampire...and I have no idea what the hell is going on."
"What do we do about it?"
"Well I'm not going to go up there and kill her, she already looks like death."
"She cheated death before...maybe it's karma."
Dean nodded, but she seemed different.
"You heard what he said, he told us it wasn't her choice.'
"Wasn't it you that said the only thing Bela does is lie? She could have lied to him Dean."
"Oh i get it Sam...I just don't know." Dean shook his head, walking back into the other room. They were not leaving until they got answers.
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Damon had stood in the corner of the bedroom for a few minutes. He was in between super pissed off and hurt. He didn't want Elena or anyone to see his emotions for Rose, but he did care. He was angry at the situation-Jules, these hunter idiots, Rose dying. It all sucked.
Rose had only been asleep for a few minutes, but she woke back up. Damon walked over to her.
"Hey there."
"I'm sorry..." she started.
"You went on a murderous rampage..it happens."
She shook her head. No, it didn't happen with her.
"I'm sorry Elena. I don't take human life, I've never wanted to."
"You shouldn't be here." Damon told Elena.
Elena being in the room kept Damon from sensing that Dean had came upstairs and into the hallway to listen.
"That's the worst part you know." Rose continued, ignoring Damon. "The hunt, the need to kill...I can feel it sometimes but now it's like I have no control. It's hurts."
"Then stop talking about it." Damon told her.
Rose tried rolling her eyes, even that was difficult. Elena knew Damon's masks...this was one of them. Rose looked straight to Elena, again ignoring Damon.
"Damon's a lot like me. He wants to care...but we're so used to the bad that comes with it that when we find ourselves caring we run away from it. I really am sorry for today."
"I know." Elena told her softly.
"Elena you need to fight. I know you're scared but do it anyways. I may have lost my chance, but life is worth it Elena."
She nodded. Whether Elena agreed or not, she needed Rose to think she did. Elena walked over and leaned down to Rose, holding her arm.
"Why are you so nice to me?" Rose asked.
"Us humans." Elena teased.
"I'll never forget it you know. What it was like being human...I made so many mistakes and they haunt me, but they've kept me going." Rose turned to Elena and smiled for a second. "It doesn't hurt as much."
Damon looked at them. As much as he couldn't stand this emotional crap, every point Rose made was true.
As quickly as Rose had felt better she worsened again. She cried out in pain, and thrashed around.
"Damon!" Elena yelled.
Damon rushed to the bed and grabbed ahold of her.
"Go Elena, get out, now."
"Damon..."
"No, I've got this now go."
Elena finally nodded and left the room quickly...running into Dean in the hall.
She gave Dean a look that told him he had no right to be up here. Dean didn't respond to her though, he was too surprised at the emotional stuff coming from Bela's mouth...no way was she lying about being sorry. She was dying, she had no reason to lie. Just like before when she told him the truth about Lilith.
Elena kept walking though, she decided to head home.
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Dean made his way back downstairs, and told Sam how bad Bela looked and about what she'd said.
"You of all people are going to feel sorry for her?"
"Nope. It ain't pity Sammy...confusion maybe. And okay maybe a little bit sorry, she really looks terrible."
They both looked up as Damon walked into the room...but they didn't get a chance to speak.
"If you want to ask me about vampire issues or any other weird problems thats fine...but Rose is off limits. Give me a reason as to why I should tell you anything...after all from what I've heard you don't exactly ask questions before trying to kill us."
"Not going to deny it then, that you're a vampire?" Sam asked.
"Nope."
"Wow, you got this whole town believing you're helping them, when you're part of the problem." Dean snorted.
Damon laughed a little.
"I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a nice guy, but I am helping Liz. I try to keep the vampire population down besides the few of us who do actually have control over the bloodlust."
"She one of them?" Dean asked, motioning upstairs to indicate he meant Rose. Damon glared at him for asking about Rose, but answered.
"She's been helpful...and she told me all about her past with the two of you. Ok, well I had to pry it out of her, but she told me. I know you hate her after what she did to you. However, that person you know isn't the same as the woman I know."
"She couldn't have changed that much." Dean said.
"Maybe, maybe not. She is a friend though, and has been a good one. I won't let you kill her...well not that there's any point to it anyways seeing as she doesn't have long to live."
"Why a werewolf?" Sam asked.
"I pissed it off." Damon smirked, but then got angry again. Anger was easier than the guilt he felt. "The she-bitch came after me, Rose thought it was a great idea to throw herself in the middle of it."
"She saved you?" Dean asked...that was definately not the Bela he knew, Bela didn't save anyone but herself.
"She did." Damon said, but kept his tone light like it didn't matter.
"What's going on around here?" Sam asked.
"This place has always been weird, but I can chalk most of it up to the a centuries old curse that some old original vampire wants to break."
"What kind of curse?"
"Guess this affects your job...so I'll tell you. Apparently if a vampire breaks this curse then it will cause vampires to be able to walk in the daylight."
"What?"
Damon rolled his eyes. Ugh he hated explaining all this shit right now.
"Yes I know, us roaming around in the day, not good."
"You don't want that, after all you are a vampire." Dean said.
"True...but there are plenty out there even less friendly than me, and we both know just how bad that could be."
"So you need help with that issue...but what's this about an 'original' vampire?" Sam asked...could 'Alpha' and 'original' be linked as the same?
"I don't know, I'm no expert on it...Rose got caught up in it, found out that these original vampires were coming after Elena...I guess they're like the very first family of vampires or something."
Yeah, that definately sounded a little bit similar to the whole 'alpha' thing.
"Elena, the girl that was here earlier. Why her?"
"Long story, ask me later when I don't have a dying vampire on my hands."
"I want to talk to her." Dean said suddenly.
"No. Last thing she needs is to argue with you about a past she doesn't want to deal with." Damon said, then turned and went back up to his room.
Dean sighed. The curiosity was killing him...he had things to say to Bela...but he probably wouldn't get the chance.
"Dean, I think we should go."
"Go ahead Sam, I'm staying. Just incase. Go do research or whatever it is you do...looks like this problem is going to be our problem too."
Sam reluctantly left.