Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend

It was a cold, dark night. It seemed to ooze tension and suspense from all surfaces. They drove, followed Damon, he's tracked them all the way to the outskirts of town, inside a small cabin in the woods. It certainly didn't help their nerves, but Damon doesn't care. This is war and he's going to ambush them until they're all grey and veiny. They park about half a mile out from the house. They can't afford to be heard coming in.

"Okay, so after Ric here gets into the house and brings the human out, if there is any, then he'll join you. You all, stay out of my way…you're clumsy human selves are just an inconvenience that I can't afford." Damon dictates and he starts walking towards the house. The light barely makes a dent in the dense darkness of the night.

"Wait, I'll go with you, while Ric and Bobby stay behind. I'm getting my brother out." Dean says, casually resting his machete on his shoulder.

Damon turns slowly and narrows his eyes, "Do you think that this the time to play hero or some crap?" He snaps his fingers, "Bam…that's all it'll take before you get us all killed. The vampires in that house are old, they're older than me, which means that they're stronger, faster, can hear better, can see better, basically they can do all I can do, plus some, I'm going alone. I'll get your precious brother out, after I get mine clear. We have a deal, I'm not one to break my end of the bargain, just ask any Bennett witch you find. Lying sonsovbitches." Damon mutters that last part under his breath.

"Excuse me if I don't trust you, you know considering you're a vampire." Dean argues.

"I can just kill you, you know, there's nothing stopping me from doing that."

"We're being too loud, Dean, Damon you two go, get your brothers out of the house and we'll cover you." Ric says as he walks to stand by Bobby.

Damon groans and rolls his eyes, "Stay out of my way, or you might not make it out." He threatens Dean. Together they approach the house.

Bobby and Ric find a perch up above the house and ready themselves to kill anything that comes out. "Damon killed your wife?"

Ric flinches at that, "It's a long and complicated story. I came, tracked him, found him, tried to kill him and then he wound up killing me instead."

Bobby frowns, "Son, you're all kinds of screwed up, for bein' with a vampire and all."

"I ask myself why I don't drive a stake through his heart every day." Ric laughs.

Bobby nods accordingly and hums in sarcastic understanding. I take it, the town knows about them.

"Well, it's a little hard not to, plus Damon is helpful. He runs the council." Ric explains.

"Council?" Bobby asks with a frown.

"This town has a council to fight against vampires." Ric elaborates.

"Damon runs it?" Bobby nearly chokes with surprise and shock.

"He infiltrated it. John Gilbert exposed him and Carol Lockwood and Liz Forbes both tried to kill him as well. It's a long complicated story, basically he made amends and he doesn't kill anymore. He drinks from the blood bags that Meredith Fell gives him. Stefan just feeds off animals." Ric states.

Bobby raises his eyebrows at this, "This is just too weird."

Ric nods, "You're telling me, at least you get to leave."

Bobby gives Ric a pointed look, but Ric by this point is staring intently on the house, awaiting his opportunity.

TVD—SPN-TVD—SPN—TVD—SPN

"Take the bedroom, I'll take the basement." Damon says as he drops the greying body of the vampire, whose heart he just ripped out, onto the ground.

Dean nods and he goes into the direction of the bedrooms, with his machete at the ready.

"Stefan!" Damon says in shock as he rushes down the stairs when he sees his brother tied up and bleeding. He's weak and hungry. Damon notices that he's barely conscious.

"Where's Dean?" Sam asks, worriedly.

"Sammy?" Dean exclaims as he rushes to his brother's side.

"I thought you were taking care of Fredrick, he's still out there." Damon says angrily.

"There's no one else in the house." Dean retorts annoyed. Once he finishes with untying his brother he starts for the stairs to get him to safety.

"Hey!" Damon says after he's burned his hands for the fifth time, "I need you. I can't touch the ropes."

Dean groans and shakes his head, "I'm getting Sammy out of here." With that he leaves.

Damon sneers, but he can't just leave his barely alive brother behind. He decides to just let his hand burn after another failed three attempts and screams in rage and agony as he rips the ropes apart. His brother by this point is completely out of it. Damon takes his brother and dashes out of the house.

"You better leave." Damon growls as he comes up to Dean and Sam.

"Not before I kill you." Dean says as he hands his brother to Bobby and approaches Damon with a bloody machete.

Damon drops his brother unceremoniously on the ground, causing his brother to abruptly come to consciousness. His little brother moans as he hits the forest floor. "You know you've been annoying me the entire time you've been here." Damon says.

Dean nods, "Likewise."

Ric rushes over to Stefan and looks at him. "Enough, both of you!" He shouts at them, "We need to get out of here and we can settle our differences somewhere else."

"I agree." Bobby states.

"No, let's just take care of this now. It'll be more room in the car." Damon says, approaching Dean with hate in his eyes.

"You—." Before he can finish that sentence, Damon's eyes grow wide and he pushes Dean to the side, causing the man to hit the ground hard with an unceremonious grunt.

"Dean!" Sam manages to break away from Bobby and stumbles over to his brother, who is trying to regain his bearings right now.

It's the hand gripping his heart that causes him to take no notice of everything going on around him. He can barely hear his brother shout his name in a desperate attempt at trying to help him and distract Fredrick, from what he's about to do. His whole body is convulsing from pain and shock as the hand tightens its grip. He manages a strangled cry. He knows that everyone is seeing what's going on, Fredrick is saying something he's sure of it, probably threatening everyone around him with his life. Why on earth did he just save Dean Winchester's life? It's just causing him heartache, literally. Damn, Stefan! His heart is in the process of being pulled and everything goes black. Damon Salvatore knows no more.