Damon cursed himself for not bringing the bag of blood, Kirya had in her bag. As soon as he'd entered the crumbling building, it hadn't been hard to locate Stefan who was bleeding hard. A jagged piece of metal had penetrated his chest, nailing him to the floor.

It had been easy to get him loose, but now he was too weak to do anything else but lean against the nearest wall, much less get the hell out of the building before it collapsed.

Damon had to think of something, and fast.

"Yo! Stefan." No response.

He knelt down in front of him, snapping his fingers impatiently in his face. Stefan opened his eyes.

"Tell me, was there by any chance any humans in this fucking building?"

Stefan looked a bit surprised at his brother, before answering. "Yeah, a dozen or so."

"Good."

Damon took of at a sprint. He quickly located the sound of a beating heart. He grabbed the woman, yanking her free of the debris, and half dragging, half carrying her back to his brother.

"What are you doing?"

"What's necessary." Damon deadpanned. He spun the girl around who was eying her surroundings dizzily. Without a seconds hesitation he bit down on her exposed neck, before he threw her at Stefan. "Feed."

Stefan instantly burrowed his fangs in the girl, taken over by the hunger. Damon could see how the color slowly returned to his skin, and how the wound in his chest quickly started healing. He let out an involuntary sigh of relief.

"So," Stefan had let go of the girl, and was carefull to lick his lips, erasing any trace of blood. "You need to cover this up, I'm too weak to give her any."

Damon huffed, the relief quickly washing away and being replaced by annoyance. "Whatever." Stefan had grown into an annoying habit of bossing him around.

He bit down on his wrist, and then grabbed the now unconscious woman by the hair, and forced his blood down her throat. After a few seconds her eyes fluttered open and she let out an ear piercing scream.

"Look at me." When she ignored his words, he forced her head around making her meet his glance.

"You hit your head in the explosion. You don't remember anything that happened the last ten minutes."

Both her face and her voice was blank when she repeated his words. "I hit my head and don't remember the last ten minutes." Satisfied he dropped her to the ground.

"Let's get the hell out of here." He started walking for the exit, but stopped when Stefan didn't follow immediately. He was leaning over the woman, talking to her gently.

"Did you hit your head as well? Lets. Get. Out. This whole damn shack is gonna collapse."

Stefan just waved at him, before picking her up and moving to follow Damon. "Relax, he said in a low voice, as he passed Damon. "Just making sure we at least get a bit good publicity out of this shit."

Of course he should have trusted his brother to think of that.

Sometimes he missed the times where Stefan had been less calculating and more saintlike.

Kirya saw them emerge from exit. Stefan was carrying a limp body in his arms. She heard shouts as medics and press saw them and rushed to their sides.

Worried she looked for Damon and felt a wave of relief wash over her as she saw him strolling out of the building with his hands casually in the pockets of his leather jacket. Unconsciously she shook her head. He was effectively evading the commotion by entering the gathering crowd from the side. She took it as a cue, and started to make her way back to his car.

She sat down on the hood of the car waiting for him to return.

It took him a while, and Kirya was just starting to wonder what kept him, when a shadow blocked out the sun. She had leaned back closing her eyes. She opened them.

He was staring at her with a weird look in his eyes.

"It's not polite to stare."

"Yeah, who said I was a polite kind of guy?"

She chuckled softly, getting up. "Duly noted." She stretched, still a bit worn out from yesterday night's party and today's action. She ignored how he was eying her body as she did so.

"Can I hitch a ride back home?"

He got in the car and she did the same. He turned the ignition before answering.

"No."

She looked at him questioningly.

"Care to explain why?"

"Not really."

She sighed exasperated leaning back in the soft car seat. "Whatever." It wasn't like she had planned to do anything today anyway.

Hey guys. I'm planning to post a quick update later tonight, so stay tuned :-) More Kirya and Damon bonding time is coming up.

By the way, would you like to have some of the other characters from the show in this story? If you do, who should it be? Remember those who are not vampires will be remarkably older. Probably around 20 years older.