Salvatore Boarding House

Dean and Sam now sat across from Rose and Damon, and it was definately an awkward moment for the four of them. Finally Rose stood up and walked over to the table behind them.

"What are you doing?" Damon asked.

"Figured I should ease the tension." Rose told him, and brought Damon a glass of his bourbon.

"Knew I liked you." Damon said, reaching out eagarly for it. Rose proceded to pour a few more glasses and set them down in front of the other two men in the room, and kept one for herself. "Hey now, didn't say they could drink it."

Rose ignored him and sat back down. He gave up and took a large gulp. He then very slow moved his body so that he was up against Rose, and put his arm behind her on the couch...Rose didn't pay much attention to it as she'd gotten used to Damon being close to her, but it didn't go unnoticed by Dean. Seemed as though Damon was acting a little possessive of her.

"So...you wanted to talk." Damon said to them. "talk."

Dean didn't know where to start, So Rose spoke up.

"You think somehow you're problems are connected to our problems..." Rose stated.

"Yea we do. So you guys go first, tell us why you're having so many vampire issues in this town and we can see if our problems are related. Damon here said you were the one to bring information to them, so what do you know and how do you know it?" Sam asked Rose.

Rose sighed.

"Sam's right...how'd you of all people happen to know about all this?" Dean asked.

Of course he was suspicious of her. Okay, maybe he had a right to be...but still. She wasn't expecting to have to answer those questions.

"Just start at the beginning and tell them everything you told us...they won't leave us alone til you do." Damon told her.

Rose nodded. "Okay. After Lexi turned me and I got control over the bloodlust I took off. I stayed on the run for the greater part of the last 3 years...you two weren't the only hunters I knew and I figured if I stayed in the life I'd been living before it was only a matter of time before a hunter found out and killed me. I didn't want to be hunted, so I kept moving around."

"And apparently changed your name again. Rose though, really?" Dean asked. He could not help himself. "Please tell me you didn't get that from that rediculous movie."

Rose had to laugh at that. "No Dean. It was my middle name."

"You had picked out Bela Rose as your name?" Dean snorted. Bela suited her for sure...but the two names together made him laugh, it was so girly...and while Bela was a beautiful woman those two names were a bit too sweet for her, according to him anyways.

"Dean, shut up okay? My original middle name. The only name that my mother had picked out. Besides I rather doubt my name is important...I forgot how irritating you could be."

"You know you were much sweeter when you were sick...Got it Abby Rose. Continue."

She rolled her eyes and gave him a look that said 'thats what I was trying to do before you spoke up.'

Damon laughed internally. He knew the two of them had issues, but he hadn't expected the banter. Damon and Rose liked to pick at each other and call out each other on their shit, but they didn't fight like Dean and her already had done in the few minutes they spent in the same room together. It sort of reminded Damon of his and Elena's relationship. Of course, did that mean that underneath it all Rose and Dean felt something for each other?

"Anyways after a while I wanted to know more about what I was. I ran into a guy named Slater, and he taught me a few things. That's where I learned about compulsion..."

"What's that?" Sam asked.

"Not important right now, we can explain later. What is important is that Slater said he had contacts with other vampires who knew more than he did, and I asked him to get me in contact with one of them. So he did. His name was Elijah."

"He's such a peachy guy." Damon said, rolling his eyes.

"What about him?" Sam asked.

"Well he did teach me a few things...before he decided to use me to get to Elena. Seems I have this bad habit of trusting the wrong people...Elijah compelled me to capture Elena."

"Right, we were wondering what she had to do with all this." Dean said.

"She has way too much to do with it for my liking." Damon said.

"Luckily before I was compelled I'd heard him talking about this curse, and that they needed the blood of the doppleganger to do so. I thought at first they were still talking about Katherine...but they meant Elena. So after he compelled us to go kidnap her, I talked to Trevor, the other vampire Elijah compelled, about it. Trevor had been involved in Katherine's escape, and he told me a lot about it."

"Okay, what exactly do you mean about being compelled, why Elena, and who the hell is Katherine?"

"Damon...you wanna...?"

"Sure. We can compel people...maybe you've never got close enough to a vampire who knew about it...but it's kinda like mind control. Sure comes in handy when you want people to forget you were ever there."

Sam and Dean looked at each other? Seriously...how come they never knew that?

Damon continued. "Katherine, or Katerina, is the she bitch who started all of our problems. Elena wouldn't be in danger if Katherine hadn't turned and ran."

"From what I figured out, Elijah is working with someone named Klaus. Rumour has it Klaus is the worst of the original vampires, he's the oldest. He's dangerous, and supposedly feared by everyone who's ever heard of him. Klaus wants to break the curse, and needs the blood of the doppleganger to do so...and now that doppleganger is Elena." Rose said.

"How old are we talking about?" Dean asked. "I still don't understand the doppleganger thing, and why this Katherine chick caused the problem."

"Beginning of time old practically. Katherine's 5 centuries old, and Klaus is centuries older than that." Damon told them.

"Katherine was a doppleganger herself...which is the descendent of the orignal Petrova woman who's blood was used in the curse, but Katherine ran and tricked someone into turning her so that she could escape. The doppleganger had to be human. So as a vampire she was useless. I guess Klaus thought his chance at breaking the curse was over...but it turned out Katherine had a child before she turned." Rose was getting burnt out on the story telling...she had to go through this whole thing just to get their help. She had to admit, this whole curse/doppleganger crap was exhausting.

"So Elena is her descendent." Sam

"Yes."

"So after Damon and Stefan came and rescued Elena and I, I came back here to tell them about the curse and that Klaus was looking for Elena. Now Elijah's here...and for some reason wants her alive and told her he'd protect her and her friends if she refrained from trying to hand herself over and get herself killed."

"Why would she do that?"

"Because she's incredibly stupid...okay fine just too much of a damn do gooder." Damon said. "She figured dying herself would help save all of us around here so she was going to try and turn herself in. I was about ready to lock her in the basement myself before Elijah showed up."

Dean and Sam couldn't help but laugh. They knew all too well about self sacrifice when it came to family.

"Except that Elijah can't be trusted, and I really think making any sort of deal with him is a mistake. I'm sure you can agree with me when I say deals never end up how they're supposed to." Rose said.

Dean and Sam didn't say a word, but she was right.

"So, what does any of this have to do with your issues?" Damon asked.

"Well for starters, you're lucky the demon who started all of this is dead. Crowley was torturing your kind for information about purgatory." Sam stated.

"Yeah, you remember him Bela? Thought way too highly of himself, loved money and expensive shit, accent like yours...you gave him the Colt?" Dean said bitterly.

Oh great...they had to bring that up now?

"That was his name? Huh." Rose said...she really had nothing else to say about it. She'd already apologized for it.

"Dean." Sam warned. He didn't want to be in the middle of one of him and Bela's battles.

Damon didn't know what to think...it was clear Dean wasn't going to let his issues with her go...but he really wanted this conversation over so they needed to just stay on topic.

"Ok, so tell us about him and why he needed us for purgatory...and what the hell is that?"

"Apparently it's where monsters...no offense, okay maybe some offense...go when they die." Dean said.

"No heaven, no hell...just purgatory." Sam said. "Crowley wanted to find it. He was even making deals with hunters so they'd bring him the creatures they hunted. His goal was to catch the alphas of each species...or in your case the 'original' vampires. He assumed somehow they would know." Sam left out the part about his missing memories and that him and Dean had been bringing Crowley creatures for a little while too.

"So he's dead, why is there still a problem?" Rose asked.

"Becaue Crowley's death didn't stop everything having to do with purgatory, and something was released from there. All we've found so far is the name "Mother of All." So the research Bobby did found that she is the creator of all creatures...vampires, werewolves, and whatever else goes bump in the night. Now we're having more problems with the supernatural than before. She may be turning more people...creating more of them. We don't know why, but probably your original vampires know."

"So what, once Klaus gets here you just want us to ask him? I don't think Klaus is going to let us question him. I don't even think Elijah would answer questions about it." Rose said.

"Probably not...but we can figure that out once it comes to it. They may not even know...it was a thought."

"Right now my only concern is keeping Elena safe from Klaus...and stopping him from breaking the curse." Damon said.

"Well once you know where Klaus is, or if he arrives, call us. I'm pretty sure after what we've done in the past couple years we can help take out this all powerful vampire."

Damon laughed to himself. Were these guys crazy? Damon was the one with the macho ego and he didn't even think he could just take on Klaus.

"Hey I'm going to go shower and change. I'll be back, you okay here?" Damon asked Rose. She nodded. Currently she wasn't worried about the Winchesters trying to kill her.

Damon got up and walked upstairs.

"I'll keep an eye out for information on this "Mother of All". If anything I am sure I still have things in my possession that could help me locate her or at least find out why she's here." Rose told the boys.

"Why?" Sam asked.

"What? Didn't you just ask for our help?" she questioned.

"Yeah, but why are you specifically offering to help us?"

Rose sighed.

"I..you know what nevermind. You can either use what I find or not, I don't have to explain myself. I do know that I have people who need me here. I made a promise to Damon that I'd stay, and that's what I plan to do. So if you don't want my help I don't really care because I can use that time to make sure Elena is safe."

"Fine. We can use your resources and help, but that doesn't mean we trust you and I'm sure you know we have every reason not to. We've been down this road before Bela...we made that mistake once and you used us." Sam said.

"You know it's Rose...would it kill you to use that? You're going to confuse people around here. I don't expect you to trust me. And just so that you know, I don't exactly trust you either...after all I am one of the 'things' you hunt."

"Then prove us wrong." Dean said. Sam gave him a look. "I can tell you're different around Damon for some reason, I don't know why but it looks like you actually give a damn about him and the girl. So give us a reason to trust you the way he does, and maybe it'll go better for you this time...Bela. Sorry, don't expect me to call you Rose. Deal with it."

She wasn't certain, but even though Dean basically was giving her a chance, he seemed very bitter. But it looked more like it was because she cared about Damon then it was that she'd betrayed him in the past. Could it be that she'd once told Dean she didn't give a damn about him...was he angry that now she actually cared about someone else? Rose wasn't sure.

"We have other hunts we need to take care of other than here. We'll go back to the motel tonight and see if we can find any more information about this Klaus guy. We'll head out of here tomorrow sometime. " Sam said, and stood up to leave.

Rose and Dean stood up too, and Dean had every intention of following Sam out the door. He hesitated though.

"I'm not thrilled about all this, and I will be spending time making sure there is no way you can pull anything on us again. However, we could use your help on this. Even after all these years I'm still pissed off...but just in case you even feel the slightest amount of guilt for stealing the Colt I can tell you that having the Colt probably wouldn't have saved my life. Lilith needed me dead, and nothing Sam and I could have done would have stopped that from happening. I've never believed in fate, but I did have to learn that sometimes things are going to happen and no matter what we do to try we can't always stop it.

Rose nodded. She couldn't say anything. Sure she could get defensive and yell at him, but he was right. She'd made those mistakes, she'd chosen herself over everyone else's lives. So there wasn't a point in arguing about the past with him. Granted she wasn't going to make it easy for him, because she truly did miss pissing him off, but only about the small stuff that didn't really matter.

Dean turned to head out the door, and stopped for a moment.

"For what it's worth, no matter how I feel about what you are or how angry I still am...I'm glad you survived. Do not make me regret those words." He told her, and didn't give her the chance to reply as he walked out and shut the door behind him.

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