Next Morning:
Damon woke up alone, but it didn't surprise him. He knew Rose wanted to get outside as soon as the sun came up. He heard noises coming from downstairs, and headed to see what was up. He smiled a little as he saw Rose holding a cup of coffee, about to head outside.
"Hey, sorry...I just wanted to get out there early."
"Don't be. I figured as much. Coffee addict?"
"Always. Not something I could ever give up, vampire or human."
He smiled. "You doing okay Rosebud?" he asked, half teasing.
"Yeah, great actually. Well other than I saw the two men I killed on the news...I'm sure that isn't going to help us any."
"Hey the town's opinion on vampires is never going to change whether we are model citizens or killers, so you accidently killing those men won't change anything."
She nodded, but there was no releiving the guilt. She kept it to herself though.
Rose handed Damon a cup, but he heard the front door open.
"You go ahead outside and enjoy yourself. Stefan's home, I'm going to go talk to him."
"Sure." She said, and headed out.
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Rose had been in her own head for a while. She'd enjoyed sitting in sun so much she hadn't even paid attention to the conversation Damon and Stefan were having inside the house. She did manage to hear the tail end of it. Stefan apparently had done something Damon wasn't to thrilled with, and it had something to do John Gilbert...obviously related to Elena. What really made Rose laugh was Stefan calling Damon out on his feelings. Damon was so much like her, denying his emotions, using sarcasm to do it. Especially since it was concerning her...Rose then heard the door shut. Damon must have left to go deal with whatever it is he was annoyed about.
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About an hour later, Rose got a call from Damon saying to come to the Grill. She had to admit getting away from the boarding house sounded like fun.
She showed up to find Damon at the bar, drink in hand. His day obviously not going that well.
"Hey. You called."
"Yep. Want a drink?"
Rose nodded. Damon handed her the glass.
"Bad day already?"
"More like irritating...not necessarily bad."
"You want to explain?"
"John Gilbert, Elena's uncle slash father. He hates vampires, you may want to stick clear."
"Got it. Seems like there's more."
"Him coming back isn't good...I know he's got nothing on your daddy issues...but he's not world's best dad either. And him coming back into town means he has an ulterior motive."
"Why do you think he's here?"
"No idea, but unless he tells me i'm going to start removing limbs."
"Hey Rose. Glad you could come out." Elena said, walking up to them.
"Hey." Rose said back...but they were interrupted by Elena's phone ringing.
"It's Stefan." Elena said. "Hey Stefan, what is it?" Elena asked him.
Her face got serious fast. And Damon and Rose could tell she was worried.
"What?" Damon asked.
"Not here." Elena said quietly.
Rose nodded, letting them know they should go somewhere more private. "I'm fine here, go." Damon gave Rose a look that let her know he would explain later.
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Rose sat there a few more minutes when she noticed Dean walk into the grill. He walked straight up to her.
"Where's your friend?" Dean asked, smirking.
Rose motioned to the back of the Grill where Damon and Elena had went. "Some kind of problem..."
"Our kind of problem?" Dean asked quietly.
"I have no idea. Stefan called, Elena was got worried...so her and Damon are off discussing it and I'm here making sure no one else hears something they shouldn't.
"Can't you hear what they're saying?"
Right...she was used to purposely avoiding listening in.
"Yeah." Rose answered.
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"Why am I just finding out about this now?" Damon asked.
"Stefan was worried that you…"
"That I'll what? That I'd kill him? Of course, it's what's need to happen."
Uh oh, that didn't sound good. Damon was pissed.
"No Damon, not Tyler. Do whatever you need to do to get Caroline back but just leave Tyler out of it, okay?"
"Why? He's a werewolf, he needs to die. I'm willing to kill him, it's win-win"
Rose couldn't help but agree with both of them...she wasn't very fond of werewolves at the moment...but this was one of Elena's friends. Rose wasn't sure whether to mention any of this to Dean. Hell Dean would probably agree with Damon. After all, he hunted werewolves for a living too...
"Damon please, okay? Too many people are dead." Elena practically begged.
"You need to stop doing that." Damon said darkly.
"Doing what?"
"Assuming that I'll play the good guy because that you who's asking."
Rose knew he was upset...he was reverting back to his attitude of not caring when she knew that he did.
"Be a better man, Damon."
Dean waited for Rose to let him know what was going on.
"It's Elena's friend Caroline...Elena mentioned having to get her back so I assume that means she's been taken. Something to do with their friend Tyler, who's a werewolf."
"Oh please don't tell me there are so me 'nice' werewolves here too..." Dean asked, kind of annoyed.
"Apparently...Tyler's new at it. He and Caroline made sure he was locked away during the full moon."
"This town is weird...and I've seen it all."
"Yes Dean, I know."
"So, what are they doing about it?"
"Damon wants to kill Tyler...which I think may have more to do with the fact that he hates werewolves...more specifically because of Jules."
"Got it. You know he isn't all that wrong."
"Elena doesn't want any more of her friends dying..."
Dean closed his eyes...he somewhat missed the days where he thought in black and white. When he could just walk in a room and kill the creature and be done with it. Now there was complications. Friendships, emotions...it made the job harder sometimes.
"Crap." Bela whispered.
"What?" Dean asked.
"John interrupted them...Elena wants to go find Caroline. Look, I'll be back, I'm going to go find out whats going on and maybe distract John."
"Who is he?"
"Elena's father I guess...apparently not a nice guy." Rose said, then stood up to head back to the bathrooms where Elena was.
Rose walked past Damon, who was rushing out.
"Good, you heard most of that." Damon stated. "Day just went from irritating to bad...do me a favor, make sure that moron doesn't do anything...and if something happens you don't here from me in a while you may want to ask your old friends for help with the wolf problem."
She nodded.
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