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Salvatore house: Later that Evening
Rose was in the kitchen watching Jenna prepare food.
"I'd help...but I'm fairly sure I'd be more of a hendrance."
"You don't cook?"
"Not really something I do." Rose said. It was true, especially now.
"Lack of time?"
"Something like that, probably a lack of talent too."
Jenna laughed. "Why's that?"
"Didn't grow up in that kind of home. And after that I spent most of my time eating out or ordering to go."
Jenna nodded, and didn't press for any information.
"Look I'm not one to pry...but you and Alaric seem to be a bit off."
"I don't know...I feel like he's hiding something."
Right, she didn't know about vampires. Rose made a mental note not to say anything, she was used to being around people that knew lately.
"I don't really know the two of you, but from what I know about him from Damon I'd say he's a good guy, and I think you can trust him." Rose told her. She truly believed that too, for a hunter, or in his case solely a vampire hunter he was pretty cool. She liked him, and Damon liked him which said a lot.
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"Hey." Rose said, coming into the room with Alaric and Damon. "Jenna might need help in the kitchen." Rose told Alaric, and gave him a look that meant he should go talk to her.
Alaric nodded, and left the room.
"How's it going?" Rose asked Damon.
"Fine. He think's this is a bad idea."
"I heard. He's probably right...but what other choice do we have?"
"I know."
"Seriously though Damon...be careful. He's right about Jenna as well, Elijah could kill any of us if he knows what you're up to. We're only safe as long as we play by his rules...so just make sure he 'thinks' we are."
"Got it Rose."
She gave him a look. He smiled. He really was thankful for her.
Damon and her heard the doorbell ring. They walked to the front while Jenna answered the door. However, it wasn't Elijah, it was John.
"Who invited him?" Jenna asked.
"John. What a surprise. Leave." Damon told him.
"Well when I heard there was going to be a dinner party I decided why miss out on the fun and games."
"No games tonight. Just a dinner." Alaric told him seriously.
"What he said." Damon agreed.
A few minutes later Damon opened the door for Elijah.
"Evening, come on in." Damon said.
"Just a moment. I will say that if you have any less than honorable intentions for this evening I suggest you reconsider."
"Nope, nothing like that, just getting to know everyone." Damon smiled.
"Good. Because if you cross me in any way, the deal is off, and I will kill you and anyone in this house. Are we clear?"
"Crystal."
Elijah nodded, and walked in.
Rose had stepped back as Elijah walked by. Damon walked behind him, and put his arm around Rose's waist. She could tell that under his fake smile Damon was seething.
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After dinner Damon moved the dinner along to drinks and continued with the plan. He stood with Elijah in the study.
"Do you know where it is?" Elijah asked, referring to the witch burial grounds they had been discussing.
"Maybe, tell me why it's important."
"We're not that close." Elijah said, refusing to tell him.
Kitchen
Rose heard Alarics phone ring, and walked over to him when she heard Stefan on the other end.
"Stefan slow down."
Damon can't use the dagger on Elijah Ric, it'll kill him. John didn't mention that part...the person using the dagger has to be human. Stefan said.
Oh shit!
Rose looked at Alaric, and he hung up without another word to Stefan. He and Rose quickly made their way to the study.
"Hey." Alaric said.
"We forgot about dessert." Rose told them.
Dessert? Really. Damon thought. What the hell was going on?
Alaric and Elijah walked back into the other room.
Damon gave Rose a questioning look. She rolled her eyes.
She picked up a pen and wrote on a piece of paper sitting on the table and handed it to Damon.
'The dagger will kill you too if you use it.'
Damon rolled his eyes. This wasn't good. He sighed.
"Perfect." he said.
"I on." Rose said. She walked back towards the dining room.
They were sitting at the table a while waiting, then Rose walked into the kitchen to help Jenna. She could see that Ric had decided to be the one to kill Elijah, so Rose called to him from the kitchen asking for help reaching something. Elijah stayed at the table with Damon and John.
Finally while Elijah was in the middle of threatening Damon and John, Alaric came up behind Elijah and staked Elijah through the heart with the dagger. Damon looked surprised. Hmm...well atleast he was dead.
Rose heard, and managed to keep Jenna in the kitchen a bit longer while Damon got rid of the body.
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Damon and Alaric are in the cellar dealing with Elijah's body. Rose is standing outside of it.
"You said there wasn't going to be any violence tonight, just dinner remember?"
"Says the guy that did the killing."
"Because I saw an opportunity. I didn't plan that especially with Jenna here. No more lying to me like that Damon, I'm your friend, and you don't have any friends...minus Rose here. So seriously, no more lying."
Damon nods, and leaves with Rose to go upstairs.
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A few minutes later Stefan called again...and Damon and Rose rushed to the cellar to see that Elijah was gone.
"Dammit." Damon yelled.
Rose called Stefan and Elena back immediately, and warned them that Elijah may be coming for Elena. They immediately came up with a plan.
Elijah found Elena, but luckily Damon had gotten there first. Elena threatened to kill herself to get Elijah to reinstate the deal, and it finally worked after she stabbed herself. Elijah blindly tried to heal her and Elena stabbed him with the dagger. Stefan rushed to her to heal her, and Damon came out of the hallway.
"Little tip. Don't remove the dagger." he said.
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After several hours, Rose was sitting on the couch when Damon walked in. Stefan and Elena had returned with Damon, and Elijah was rotting in the basement.
"Everything okay?"
"Yeah, for now. Elena's kinda pissed we didn't tell her the plan."
Rose nodded.
"One original dead...although we probably should have asked him if he knew anything about Eve."
"He wouldn't have told us." Damon said. Rose agreed.
"I'm going to go up and change...maybe shower if you want to join me."
"I'll be up in a minute." she said.
"Okay." Damon made his way upstairs into his room, but he heard a noise in his bathroom.
"Rose? Okay I know I went human speed up those stairs but how did you..." Damon started, but then froze. Oh shit...that was not Rose. Damon stared at the long haired brunette...and that certainly was not Elena.
"Hey, do you have a robe?" Katherine asked, faking innocence.
"How'd you get out?" Damon questioned.
"I knew if I begged you not to kill Elijah that's what you'd do. He died...compulsion wore off."
Duh. Great.
"You knew that."
"Yep, but I'm still here...I didn't run. I meant what I said." she told him, wrapping the towel around her.
Rose had heard the conversation, and decided to make her presence known.
"So this is Katherine."
Damon nodded.
"You must be Rose. Damon, I'm impressed." she teased.
He glared at her.
"Well, this has been fun...I'll go make myself comfortable downstairs." Katherine said.
She left the room, and Damon looked as if he could set fire to the door with his eyes.
"This isn't good." he whispered...not that it would help, Katherine could still hear him.
"One problem after another." Rose told him. "What now?"
He shook his head. "Not a clue. One thing's for sure, I'm not going downstairs tonight." he said.
Damon took off his shoes and most of his clothes, and headed for the bed. Any thoughts of a fun evening were ruined...but he motioned for Rose to join him anyways. She slid in next to him, neither saying a word.
End Chapt.