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Chapter 9
Jeremy stood frozen on the stairs.
"Jeremy, we know your there, just come out." Jenna sighed, she had not expected her nephew to find out right away.
Jeremy gulped as he headed to the living room.
"Elena is all that stuff you were talking about, was it all true?" Jeremy said his mouth getting dry.
"Yeah Jer, it is." Elena mumbled, holding tightly on Damon's hand for comfort.
"This is crazy El, this isn't some like joke right?" Jeremy asked seriously.
"Its no joke little Gilbert." Damon replied.
"Well, um I guess that means I have to be the serious brother here." Jeremy said his eyes burning into Damon's. "All I have heard for the past little while is you crying Elena," Jeremy said softly, "Damon you need to man the fuck up man. I mean my sister is carrying your kid." Jeremy seethed.
"Jeremy!" Elena shouted.
"No, he's right Elena, all I have been doing lately is being a blubbering, emotional wreck. I need to come to terms with this humanity thing, I need to be there for you." Damon said calmly, placing a soft kiss on Elena's forehead. Jenna's eyes were welling with tears.
"Sorry, its just you two are so cute, its like watching one of my soaps." Jenna said wiping the tears from her eyes.
Damon and Elena rolled their eyes, Jeremy just laughed. The four of them spent the rest of the night talking about school, Damon's life, Miranda, and Grayson; they talked and talked. Finally, they all headed to bed. Jenna didn't mind Damon staying with Elena, after all there wasn't anything that they could do that they hadn't already done.
In Elena's room, the two lovers got ready for bed.
"Don't worry I am not wearing my jeans tonight kitten." Damon winked recalling previous conversations.
"Well I would hope not!" Elena chuckled.
"But don't get any ideas okay?" Damon smirked.
Elena blushed, "Oh of course not Mister Salvatore." She teased.
"Look, I came over here tonight to say I am sorry, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings earlier. You just caught me off guard talking about Enzo. Every day I feel so guilty about leaving him. He was my best friend and I just left him there to die." Damon said his head drooping with sadness.
"Hey, its okay, I know. Its my fault I shouldn't have said anything about it, I just assumed that Lexi knew, you two seem to know each other really well." Elena replied as she got into bed.
Damon lay down beside her and let out a little laugh, "Are you jealous of Lexi?"
"No, I mean should I be?" Elena asked concerned.
"God no, haha. Lex and I aren't exactly what you would call friends. There was this one time back in the 70's I was out of control. Stef sent her to "Help" me get my humanity back, so she came to New York, were I was at the time. We had some fun, lots of alcohol and at the end of the day I left her on a bar roof to burn to death." Damon explained.
"You left her on a roof?" Elena gasped.
"Yeah, well like I said we were pretty drunk, I never used to have such high standards of women Elena." Damon laughed.
"Hey! Lexi is really nice, that is rude Damon." Elena defended her new friend.
"I know, I am sorry, its just Lex and I we don't get along. She helps Stef so that's all I care about, they are best friends." Damon said moving closer to Elena.
"Its okay, I hope she can help him Damon, have you heard from them?" Elena worried.
"Not yet, they said they would call, maybe they didn't want to wake us." Damon said checking his phone, no missed alerts, he was beginning to get worried himself.
New Orleans – Bourbon Street….
"Grams are you sure this is the right location?" Bonnie asked Sheila about the co-ordinates on the map.
"Yes, this is the right area, we need to keep our eyes open. Bonnie you, Caroline and Lexi need to go in, it will look suspicious if an old lady like me goes in there." Grams commented as they pulled up to a club.
"Okay but keep my phone in case you need us." Bonnie said handing her cellphone over to Grams.
"Be careful child." Grams said giving her a quick kiss on the cheek, nodding at Lexi.
She watched as the three girls blended with the crowd. The club was bouncing with bodies, a perfect place for a hungry vampire, Caroline was struggling slightly with all the heartbeats.
"Hey, Care you okay?" Lexi whispered.
"Yeah I think so, I had a blood bag before we got here. Its just all the heartbeats." Caroline bit down trying to control the urges.
"You'll be okay, just take deep breaths, think about anything other than the thirst. Go to the bar and get the strongest liquor you can if you feel like you can't handle it okay?" Lexi explained.
Caroline nodded. Lexi searched high and low for Stefan, looking for him and smelling for any fresh blood. If she knew her friend, he was off the rails.
Bonnie and Caroline stood behind Lexi, taking in the sights and sounds of the hyped-up club. Lexi stiffened in front of them.
"Look up there." She whispered, looking up to the top of the club. There were stairs that led to an upper level dance floor. Lexi could see an unmistakeable outline of Stefan.
"You two go on the other side I will go and talk to Stefan, Klaus won't recognize me, he will think I am just some chick hitting on Stef." Lexi explained. "Once I get Stef away, you hit Klaus with a migraine, stake him. It won't kill him, but it will temporary get him out of the way." Once the plan was set, they ascended the stair case.
Bonnie and Caroline set them selves up in the corner as Lexi headed to the dance floor. Where a zero humanity Stefan stood dirty dancing with a young blonde. Caroline watched as he danced, she bit her lip hard drawing blood. She was very jealous, "Care, calm down, he's not himself." Bonnie said seeing her friend's eyes flash from their sky-blue colour to a deep blood red.
Caroline shook her head, she knew that Bonnie was right. She had to stay strong for the plan to work.
As Lexi got close to Stefan, she knew right away who was in control. The monster inside him.
"Stef, what are you doing?" she said as she pushed the blonde off him, Stefan growled.
"What do you want?" he said grabbing Lexi and dancing with her to keep up appearances.
"To help you," she said dancing along.
"I don't need help," he muttered. The sliver of humanity still clinging to life was trying hard to push back.
"You and I both know that's not true, come on. You either come with me willingly or I take you by force your choice." Lexi threatened.
"You shouldn't be here Lex, I have done bad things, I am going to keep doing bad things." Stefan whispered into Lexi's ear.
"Stefan, you need to come back to Mystic Falls, Damon needs you, Caroline needs you." Lexi said, Stefan's eyes got wide at the mention of Caroline's name.
"Caroline will be fine Lex, and Damon is a big boy." Stefan sneered.
"Caroline is here to save you Stefan, just stop and smell, feel, she's here and she's not leaving without you." Lexi said, hoping that would trigger an emotion. Her hope was confirmed as Stefan grabbed her hard and vamp sped away to a nearby bathroom. Klaus watched intently 'hmm looks like Rippah has got himself a little treat for tonight, I shall leave him here tonight. I have business with a certain brother of mine to tend with.' Klaus thought to himself, slipping out of the club. Bonnie saw Klaus leave out of the corner of her eye.
"Care, it looks like we won't have to try and kill an Original tonight." Bonnie commented, "But we need to find Lexi and Stefan."
Stefan had Lexi pinned against a sink, "What did you bring her here for!" he yelled frustrated, humanity was slowly leaking back into him.
"Calm down Stefan!" Lexi said pushing back, she was much older than him, much stronger.
Stefan felt the dam break, all the humanity came crashing on to him, like a tidal wave.
"God Lex, oh god, those people, so many people." He broke down.
"You're okay Stef, calm down." Lexi pulled him into a hug. Stefan could smell all the blood rushing through the people, their hearts pounding in his ears.
"Lex I can't the smell, god the sounds…" Stefan struggled, Lexi took a syringe of Vervain and stabbed him hard in the abdomen. He slumped on to her, Caroline and Bonnie barged in the bathroom expecting the worst.
"Come on girls lets get him to the car." Lexi said as they carried Stefan out of the bathroom, some of the people in the club looked concerned.
"Nothing to worry about he just drank to much, we are taking him home." Caroline said in her bubbly normal tone.
When they got him to the car Sheila and Bonnie tied him up tight with Vervain ropes, doping him up more with Vervain and put him in the trunk.
"Are you sure it is necessary to keep him in there?" Caroline asked sadly.
"He needs to stay hidden Care, and he doesn't have enough control." Lexi said squeezing Caroline's shoulder in comfort.
They quickly headed out of New Orleans, far way from Klaus.