Salvatore House
Rose had stayed away awhile after the boys left, but she finally made her way back to the Salvatore home.
"I'm coming with you" Rose heard Katherine say.
"No, you're not."
"Wait."
Damon rolled his eyes, and noticed Rose walk into the room.
"I don't need your help. I don't want it" He told Katherine.
"I know what we can do, Damon. You have to let me do it."
"What's going on?"
"Luka's father's going after Elena...can you stay here and hold down the fort, make sure no one tries anything?"
He wanted her to stay with Katherine...oh dear god.
"Damon." Katherine started. "I can pretend to be Elena again...just let me. We can kill him."
He sighed. He was about to say no again.
"She could have a point." Rose said.
Damon nodded.
"Oh seriously..you listen to her?" Katherine was annoyed.
"Well yeah, unlike you she didn't admit to knowing I was going to die and then do nothing about it." He smirked. "Let's go Katherine..."
Katherine took off ahead of him, heading to Elena's house. Once she was out of ear shot, Damon turned to Rose.
"I kinda hope she tries something so I have an excuse to kill her." Damon said.
Rose laughed a little. "You better go."
"Yeah." He agreed, and rushed off after Katherine.
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A few hours later, they'd returned to the house. Rose went in to shower and change while Damon stayed on his bed reading. Katherine decided to come bother Damon again. He and Rose heard her come in.
"You know what I can't figure out." Damon commented.
"What?" Katherine asked.
"How the town knew Emily was a witch. According to John Gilbert he's the only one who knew...and he didn't turn her in."
Rose didn't hear an answer from Katherine...she must have something to do with it.
Katherine looked away.
"Ah, should have figured it was you." Damon said.
"She was a loose end. I like mine tied up. You know what I can't figure out?"
"Do I care?"
"Why you won't tell me where the massacre happened."
"Um because I don't know." Damon lied.
Rose grinned as she stepped out of the shower. Katherine was stubborn, but Damon was too.
"Who's the liar now? You hurt me today." Katherine told him.
"Tit for tat."
"You were mean."
"You deserved it." he replied.
"I like this Damon." she said sweetly.
Katherine leaned closer to Damon on the bed, and tried seducing him. She really expected him to give in to her.
He pretended to at first.
"Katherine..." he started, voice low. "There are 6 other bedrooms in this house. Go find one." He told her, and shoved her off the bed. She looked at him in shock. Did he just turn her down again? Ugh.
Damon grinned, and went back to reading. Katherine stormed out of the room.
Rose finally came out of the bathroom in her robe. Damon looked up, smiling.
"You left me alone for all that?" Damon asked.
"Figured you could handle her." she teased.
"I can...but I don't wanna."
She laughed.
"Poor you."
She sat on the bed next to him.
"Well I assume everything went okay considering she's not dead?" Rose said, referring to Katherine.
"For now. Find anything out from the Winchesters?"
"Not anything too helpful no...although we did come up with the idea of trying to use the Colt on him."
"The what? Oh...you mean that gun you told me about?"
"Yeah."
"Think it'll work?"
"I have no idea...it's supposed to kill almost anything, and I know it works on vampires like us...but originals I don't know."
"Yeah worth a shot. I'd like a plan b though..."
"So would I." she agreed.
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Next Day, Salvatore house
Rose had spent much of the night doing research on a way to kill Eve, and finally gave up. She went to her bag of belongings she'd had hidden in her vehicle and pulled out her talking board. It'd been a long time since she had needed it, and it felt weird. However, it had been exactly what she'd needed. After learning that the way to kill Even was written down in some book in a storage unit she used that information, and a crystal and map, to find out the exact location.
"Hey, it's me."
You find something or just calling for the hell of it? Dean asked.
"Hmm you sound grumpy."
Yeah well just get to the point Bela...we're tired.
"Okay...I don't know what exactly it is that you need to kill Eve. However apparently the information on how to kill her is written in some old book or something in a warehouse quite a few states away from here."
Warehouse. Gonna need more than that. Location, name?
"I'm sending you the coordinates I have for it. There was a name the spirits gave me...Cambell or something like that."
Cambell? Great.
"You know it?" Rose asked.
Yeah...our dead grandfather's last name. Dean answered, clearly not too happy.
"A hunter too?"
Yeah...not a very loyal one either.
"Interesting...no wonder you couldn't get away from the life."
Tell me about it. We'll check it out anyways.
"Let me know what you find."
Will do. Dean said. Rose hung up.
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Rose made her way downstairs to where Damon and Stefan were.
"So she just showed up on their doorstep." Stefan was telling Damon.
"What's she doing here?" Damon asked.
Rose had heard the name Isobel thrown around...apparently she was Elena's now vampire birth mother.
"Don't know, I'm gonna go find out."
Katherine then walked in.
"I don't think you should let her know that I'm here."
"Why?" asked Rose, speaking up. Damon smiled, he wondered the same thing.
"It's just better if she and John don't know I stayed in town."
"You're the one in cahoots with them remember?" Damon stated.
"I did what I had to do to get out. Now I'm reconsidering my alliance."
Rose and Damon looked at each other. Rose sighed, and Damon rolled his eyes a bit.
"What do you know?" Stefan asked Katherine.
"I know that I want Klaus dead...which puts me squarely on team you. The less people who know I'm here, the better. Come on, be smart Stefan."
"Look...why don't you call Alaric." Stefan said to Damon. "Tell him that his dead wife just showed up on his current girlfriend's doorstep."
Rose would laugh if the situation wasn't so serious...all the relationships in this town were soo screwed up.
Damon nodded. Stefan left, and then Katherine followed suit...leaving Damon and Rose alone in the house.
"I'm going with Bonnie to find some book that's at Jonas' apartment. You joining the fun?"
"Well until I get more information from the boys I might as well, have nothing else to do."
He nodded, and grabbed his keys. She followed him out the door.
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Jona and Luka's place
Damon, Rose, Jeremy, and Bonnie walked into the small apartment.
"What are we looking for?" Jeremy asked.
"Well according to Luka's dad there's a spell in one of these books that'll let me harness the powers from the spot of a dead witch."
"Didn't know you were so close." Damon commented.
"We weren't." Bonnie replied. "Look if I find the spot where the witches died, I may be able to harness their powers."
"Guess that'll be on the to do list today." Damon smirked.
"You know where it is?"
"Did I forget to mention that?" Damon said, and grinned.
"So, what book?" Jeremy asked.
Rose looked around...there were like 50 books atleast.
"This will be simple." she said with light sarcasm.
Bonnie ignored them, and closed her eyes. All of the books fell from the shelf, but only one opened up...and right on the page Bonnie was looking for.
"Found it." she said.
Rose smiled...impressive.
"Great. Let's go." Damon ordered. Being around all this witch stuff made him edgy.
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Damon had briefly returned to the boarding house, and left Rose with Jeremy and Bonnie. He'd been for a while, and finally made it back to the group. They then drove to the site of the witches' burial grounds.
They all walked into the old abandoned house and walked around a bit. Suddenly Damon and Rose can't move forward anymore.
"What's going on?" Rose asked, worried.
"Hey whatevery witchy thing you're doing stop." Damon said to Bonnie.
"I'm not doing anything." Bonnie said.
"I can't move." Damon said, irritated. Rose nodded in agreement.
Damon then felt his skin burning. Rose felt it too, but not the same degree.
"I don't think the witches like you being here." Bonnie told them. "Especially you." She looked at Damon.
"Fix it." Damon said.
Bonnie closed her eyes, and freed Rose and Damon from the witches magic.
"We're waiting outside." Damon said angrily, and motioned for Rose to follow him as he left.
Damon and Rose were outside of his car when his phone rang. It was 'Elena'...telling him about John "dying" in front of everyone.
After he hung up he turned to Rose...she nodded.
"I'll drop you off at the house then go over and deal with everyone."
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Later that Evening. (After Elena's kidnapped by Isobel and Katherine's turned over to Klaus.)
Salvatore house
"Why did they let me go?" Elena asked. Stefan walked over to her.
"Safe to assume anything John told Isobel Klaus knows. Klaus knows you're not going to turn, and he knows we're keeping you safe." Stefan answered.
"He knows you won't run." Rose spoke up.
"Which is why we're going to need to take some precautions." Damon said.
"Like what?" Elena asked.
Damon laid papers in front of her. Rose looked at Damon confused, as did Elena.
"What's this?" Elena questioned.
"The deed to our house, as soon as you sign it it'll be in your name." Stefan told her.
"You're giving me your house?"
"Isobel had the right idea with the safehouse...you can just stay here. You'll have control."
"I'll be pissed if you lock me out though." Damon said, smiling.
Rose laughed quietly. Elena smiled at her, and Damon gave a mock glare at both of them.
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Damon, Rose, and Stefan sat in the study while Elena was busy with John.
"Bonnie said the spell worked...so she's locked and loaded."
"Good." said Stefan.
"So, which is plan A and which is plan B?" Rose asked.
"What do you mean?" asked Stefan.
"Her hunter friends have a special gun that apparently kills almost anything supernatural...they think it might work on Klaus."
"Realy?" Stefan was surprised.
Rose nodded. "I know that the demons I've dealt with feared that gun...as do other creatures. I think it's atleast an option."
"Either way...no offense to those guys but I'm going to put my money on Bonnie. She says she can do it. Something goes wrong that gun doesn't work, Klaus is gonna be pissed and come after all of us." Damon warned.
"That's what I said." Rose agreed. "So Bonnie first, the Colt second then?"
"I think that's a good plan." Stefan said. "Besides...Katherine doesn't know Bonnie got her powers back, so nobody but us in this room knows."
"That makes Bonnie our secret weapon."
Stefan nodded. The three of them took a drink.
End Chapt.