AN: Bet you're getting tired of seeing that, huh? Ha-ha, but I also bet you're glad to see a REAL CHAPTER NAME! That's right people, this is an actual chapter! OH MY GOODNESS! I am actually really surprised that I'm writing this. It's been what? Month and a half? I've for one, have officially lost count. Thanks so much to a guest user. These are all his/hers ideas. Let us see if I can make it work. Oh, and I posted another fic and THE FORMAT WORKED! Let's see if we can get a good format with this chapter. Disclaimer: I'm running out of things to say for these. Uh…Damon isn't mine, and if he was, I would be in the story, and I would be his lover. And I would have made it so vampires could have babies, so we could have little mini vampires. :D …. Okay that was a really disturbing disclaimer. Moving on.
Alaric's Point of View
Alaric watched Damon sink back down into the couch as soon as Stefan left. Elena had gone upstairs to Stefan's room, so he turned to him. "What's wrong?" he whispered. "You look terrible."
"I had to make sure Stefan would leave," Damon explained. "I had to make it look like I was getting a lot stronger before he did something stupid again."
"So you lied to him?" Alaric asked.
"He wouldn't have left if I didn't."
Alaric shook his head. "I'll give you props for your acting, that's for sure. Do you feel any better than you did yesterday?"
"I don't think it would have been possible to feel any worse," Damon pointed out. "But yeah, there is an improvement. Just not as big as one as everyone had thought."
"I'm going to kill you myself," Alaric muttered.
"Sort of defeats the purpose doesn't it?" Damon smiled.
"I'm calling Bonnie," Alaric decided. "You're not getting any better."
Damon shook his head. "That's unnecessary."
"Is it?" Alaric asked. "We need a witch's help. I don't know what to do, Elena is still devastated over Stefan-not that she would be able to do anything anyways and you don't seem to have any ideas either. Besides, once you do finally regain your strength, you're taking her and Caroline to go get Stefan."
Damon sighed, which turned into a cough. "Fine," he agreed. "Go call Wicked Witch of the West."
Alaric was about to turn and leave to get his cell-phone, when Damon called after him.
"And, Ric, I'm going to be fine. Make sure Elena knows that. No one needs to get freaked out over this. And if Bonnie can't find out what's wrong with me, you and I can figure something out, okay?"
Alaric nodded. "Okay."
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"Hello?" Bonnie answered her phone, sounding confused. Alaric had given her his number in case, but he had never called her before. He can only imagine how confused she must be that her history teacher is calling her cell-phone.
"Bonnie it's me," Alaric said stupidly. Obviously, it's me. I just went over this in my head.
"Yeah…" Bonnie trailed off. "Am I in trouble or something?"
Alaric almost laughed, but the scenario prevented him from doing so. "Look, we need your help." He made sure to use "we" instead of "Damon" knowing that the witch wasn't too fond of the vampire.
"Help with what?" Bonnie asked, sounding curious, the awkwardness leaving her voice.
"Damon got hurt and is sick and won't heal," he said hesitantly. "Now before you say anything, this isn't just for him. It's for Elena and Stefan too."
Bonnie was silent. "You're going to have to start from the beginning," she said after a while. "I need to know what exactly happened."
"Bring Caroline over to the boarding house and I'll explain everything then."
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There was a knock at the door about forty-five minutes after Alaric had ended the call with Bonnie. Standing up from where he was kneeling beside a sleeping Damon, he headed over to the door and opened it. Bonnie had three books in her hand and other witchy looking items that he couldn't identify and Caroline was standing next to her with a very confused look on her face.
"Thanks for coming," Alaric said.
"Wasn't much of a choice after you brought Elena into it," Bonnie said. She set down all her things on a table in the hall and without taking her eyes off Damon she asked Alaric, "alright, now explain."
Alaric hesitated, not exactly sure where to start. "Okay, I'm not sure how much Elena told you."
"We know that Stefan is with Klaus because he traded himself in for a cure for Damon's bite," Bonnie explained.
Alaric nodded. "About ten hours after he got cured, Damon got kidnapped. He was still weak from the bite which is probably why it affected him as much as it did. But he got taken to a cave where Stefan was, only it wasn't Stefan. Klaus had fed him human blood so he wasn't himself. He tortured Damon until Elena and I came and got him and ever since he's been sick and weak. Stefan was able to come for a couple of days, but he wasn't sure of what to do either."
"Have you tried blood?" Caroline asked, making Alaric to frown at her.
"Of course, we have," Alaric said, almost insulted. "When he can keep it down, it still doesn't seem to be helping as much as it should be."
Bonnie furrowed her brows and moved closer to Damon. "That doesn't make any sense," she muttered. "I'll check in the books I brought and see if anything is in there."
"Thanks," Alaric said.
"I'm doing this for Elena," she said sharply.
Alaric nodded, and let her do what she needed to. He glanced at Caroline who was staring at Damon. "I can't imagine how Elena must be feeling right now. Where is she."
"She's upstairs," he explained. "Stefan's bedroom I think."
Bonnie lifted her head from a book. "Elena's here?"
"I'm going to go talk to her," Caroline said. "She needs a friend right now. I can't even imagine losing a boyfriend twice in such a short amount of time."
"That's probably a good idea," Alaric agreed. He watched Caroline go up the stairs. Sighing, he walked over to Bonnie to help her.
Caroline's Point of View
Caroline knocked on Stefan's bedroom door gently.
"Go away, Alaric," Elena said. Her voice was hoarse and it was obvious she had been crying.
"Elena, it's me," Caroline said through the door.
"I don't really want to talk to anyone."
Caroline sighed. "Alaric told Bonnie and I what happened. Will you please just open up so I can talk to you?"
There was the sound of bed sheets ruffling and floor boards creaking when finally the door opened. Caroline's heart dropped when she saw the redness in Elena's eyes and her messed up hair. Immediately, she pulled her best friend into a hug.
"Elena," she said gently. "You're a mess."
Elena ignored what she had said and changed the subject. "Bonnie is here?"
"Yeah, she's downstairs with Damon trying to figure out what's wrong with him."
Elena furrowed her brows. "Is that really necessary? I mean the blood helped him. He should be on his feet in no time."
It was Caroline's turn to be confused. "What do you mean?" she asked. "Alaric just told us the blood wasn't working. Elena, I was just down there, Damon looks awful. Alaric said he wasn't healing properly."
Elena didn't say anything. She just stared at Caroline with a blank expression on her face.
"Elena, what's going on?" Caroline asked her.
"That's what I want to know."
Oh my goodness that felt great. I am posting another chapter! AN ACTUAL CHAPTER! Wait, haven't we been over this? XD But thanks so much guest user. You've officially given me my inspiration back. Feels so good to be posting a chapter again.