Here is a Damon/Delena chapter for all of us who miss them so. :,( On with the show…

Chapter 5: Why Won't Anybody Listen?

Damon Salvatore had been sitting in his house, writing a text to Elena to send her a sickeningly sweet message that if anyone else read he would kill them when Stefan ran into his room. "Damon, there's going to be a party at The Falls and we have to go," he had said and Damon rolled his eyes. He wanted to go but Elena had made him promise that he would not go out tonight. He knew that she was probably just being paranoid. However, he didn't want to give her grief so he was going to stay at home.

"Damon. No! We have to go! Everyone will be talking about it on Monday," Stefan complained, coming over and sitting down beside his brother, bouncing up and down like a five year old on too much sugar.

"No, and that's my final answer," Damon snapped before shoving Stefan onto the floor.

Stefan jumped to his feet with ease and a wide grin. "Fine. I hope you have a great night by yourself. And I'm taking your Camaro."

"No, you're not," Damon shouted, looking at the bureau, he noticed that his car keys were missing. "Stefan Salvatore. I'm going to kick your ass," he shouted as he bounded down the stairs with his leather jacket thrown over his shoulder.

"Maybe you'll get lucky and the Halloween Killer will get me," Stefan yelled back with glee as he flung the door open.

"I'm serious!" Damon shouted as he ran through the open door. Stefan had his house key so he couldn't lock up. Whatever. Not like he was worried about it. Slamming the door closed, he followed Stefan and hopped into the driver's side. Soon the brothers were on their way. Stefan turned on some Bon Jovi and Damon sang along with Stefan in spite of himself.

Pulling up, Damon caught sight of Klaus Mikaelson who looked bored out of his mind. "Yo, Nik," he called, holding out his arms.

Klaus turned to his friends and instantly brightened. He came over to hug them both, slapping the two bothers on the back before turning to the crowd a couple of yards away but still visible. "Hey," he greeted them. "You wouldn't happen to know if Elena and Caroline are coming?" he asked, looking away and then looking at Damon who shrugged.

"Caroline will probably come. You know she can't resist a good party," Damon stated. As for Elena, he had no idea, she had sworn she wasn't coming out tonight for any reason and he shouldn't either. So much for that.

Klaus nodded along and they headed toward the festivities. Damon watched people drinking and dancing. When he turned around he found that Stefan had wondered off with Rebekah. Rolling his eyes, Damon looked for other people he knew. Kol Mikaelson was talking to Tyler Lockwood. Elijah Mikaelson was nursing a beer and watching others with a frown. Gee, what this party needed was a chaperon. Then he noticed that Elijah's gaze kept moving to Hayley Marshall who seemed to be attached to Jackson Keener and his brother. Oh, well.

Damon was drunk and bored when Elena showed up and even Caroline's sarcasm could not bring him down while his girl was there. All he wanted was to get her alone but then stupid Caroline had to ruin it, like always. Tuning her out, Damon was not really aware of anything until there was a scream. Then there was chaos and Jackson's brother was dead and Elena was calling Jeremy and Caroline was looking for Klaus.

Scanning the crowd, Damon noticed that first Stefan wandered off, looking sick and then Rebekah disappeared. It must be the blood; he couldn't stand the sight of blood or the drinking. Rolling his eyes, Damon began to push his way through the outer circle of the crowd. He needed to get to his brother before he ended up in the hospital. "Get out of the way," he ordered people, elbowing and shoving them.

When he found Stefan, Damon's stomach twisted painfully. "Stefan," he shouted, running toward his brother and falling down beside him. Looking up, he just barely noticed a girl grab a knife and run off. Shaking his head, he looked at Rebekah. "Call 911," he yelled at the distraught blonde.

Damon heard Rebekah and then he heard her father. Time was moving too quickly. Then Elena was there with Caroline and Bonnie. She was telling him to press down on the wound. Feeling his brother's blood on his hands, Damon felt his heart pounding away as Bonnie talked to someone, probably Jeremy. Within minutes or hours there were paramedics and they were taking Stefan.

"I'm coming with him," Damon told them. He wasn't going to argue. They were taking him with them. Getting into the back of the ambulance, he held his brother's hand as Stefan stared at him, his eyes opening and closing as his breath clouded the oxygen mask. Damn whoever did this to his brother.

Once they were inside the hospital, Damon was led up to the fourth floor where a nurse shoved some papers in his face telling him. "Your brother needs surgery. Right now," he said with a calm expression.

"Okay," Damon replied, scratching his John Hancock and sitting down. After a moment he got to his feet and began to pace, rubbing at his hair. When Elena came in, he let out a sigh. She wrapped her arms around his neck while his heart settled in his chest. Looking around at the others, he had no idea what to say when Elijah announced that his father had been beheaded. That did not make sense. But neither did anything else.

Caroline went off to get coffee. Then Hayley took off. Damon rolled his eyes as he held onto Elena's hand tightly. Jackson got up, "I've got to go to the bathroom," he told them. Damon just nodded.

The next person to ditch them was Elijah. "The girls have been gone too long. I'm going to try to find them," he told Damon and Elena.

"Be careful," Elena said, getting to her feet and hugging Elijah.

"I will," Elijah promised them. "Text me if you get news," he told Damon who nodded.

As soon as they were alone, Damon laid his head on Elena's knees as she stroked his neck. "Stefan will be okay. I swear he'll be okay," she was saying and Damon nodded. Nothing about this night felt like it was going to be okay. Nothing.

At some point, Damon drifted off because he woke to Elena shaking him awake. "Damon, the doctor's here," she whispered as he looked up at her groggily.

"Okay," he said. Sitting up, Damon got to his feet.

"Mr. Salvatore," the doctor greeted him with a smile. "Your brother needed surgery due to being stabbed multiple times in the chest and abdomen, he is lucky because the attacker missed any internal organs. But he did lose a lot of blood and when he wakes up, he will need to rest."

"I will tie him to his bed once we get home," Damon joked, feeling relieved that his brother would be okay.

Elena was smiling when the doctor left them alone. "See, he'll be fine." They had mere minutes to rejoice before Elijah appeared with everyone minus Jackson plus Klaus. "We need to go. Now!" he told them.

Damon was confused. He was still confused after he had dressed in scrubs, pulled his brother out of bed (against doctor's orders) and then they found themselves face to face with a group of armed security guards. It wasn't until the handcuffs were slapped on him that he became angry. "What the hell?" he yelled as Klaus was dragged away. Caroline was also taken away from the group after a doctor shoved a needle in her neck. And Stefan was placed in a wheelchair and wheeled off.

"Hey, where are you taking them?" Elijah shouted. He was being held by two security guards.

"Time to go," one of the guards told them. Damon struggled as he looked at Elena. They were thrown into the back of the deputy from Mystic Falls' car. Elijah and Hayley were thrown into the same car, forcing Damon and Elena to move over. Two deputies got inside and refused to answer the young people's questions or accusations about a killer on the loose.

It wasn't until they were being booked that anyone bothered to talk to them. Liz Forbes came out with a shocked expression. "What is going on with the four of you? Is it not enough that someone attacked your brother, Damon? And you, Hayley, I'm very concerned. I was told that drugs were found in your purse and there is a video of you stabbing a doctor in a stairwell with a syringe. I know that it is Halloween, but this is just too much."

"Sherriff Forbes, we can explain everything," Elena told her.

"And you will. But right now I need to go because there was a report of a man who might have been another victim on a road side near The Falls," Liz explained with her arms crossed.

"You mean my father, yes, I saw his body, he had his head cut off," Elijah told the Sheriff before he stopped talking and stared at the ceiling.

"How?" Liz began to say when Damon interrupted.

"Um, excuse me. Pressing issue here. My brother, you might remember him, goes by the name of Stefan, kind of goofy kid. Well, he's going to die if you don't let me go back to the hospital and get him!" Damon realized he was shouting. Trying to get up, he found a deputy pulling out a gun and pointing it at him. Wasn't it enough that he was handcuffed to a chair?

"Deputy," Liz said sternly as she placed a hand on the barrel, pushing it downward. "I can see that all of you have had your share of excitement tonight what with seeing a dead body and the fact that you have clearly been drinking. And possibly been using drugs that you stole from the hospital." She gave Hayley a pointed look. "I will go out and verify if Elijah was right and that it is his father. If it is, then you have my condolences, Elijah. You'll have to understand with all the prank phone calls we've been receiving tonight about a group of hooded people carrying weapons and attacking and/or killing boys, that our station is overwhelmed."

"Was it a prank when someone killed Oliver?" Hayley yelled, her face contorting as she got to her feet. "And. Shit. Caroline's with that crazy doctor!"

"What?" Liz' eyebrows rose.

Elena and Damon nodded frantically. "Yes, they took Caroline. She was injected with something. But I don't know what. That was the last time I saw her," Elena told the Sheriff who looked confused.

"Why would they do that?" Liz asked them with her hands on her hips.

"We don't know!" Damon yelled. He felt frustrated as he jerked on the handcuffs that were holding him.

"Alright. As soon as I get done checking on… the man that was found I will go to the hospital and find out what's happened to Caroline. It's probably that she was upset. Or you're suffering from mass hallucination," Liz seemed to be talking to herself as she walked off with two Sherriff's deputies.

Damon's head fell back and he rolled his eyes into the back of his head. Why wouldn't anyone freakin' listen? He needed to leave, like yesterday. "Matt?" Elena cried and Damon's head moved upward. He noticed that Matt Donavon had just entered the station. For once Damon was happy to see the former teen football star turned Sheriff's deputy trainee.

"Matt!" Elena called again and Matt came to stood over them.

"Hey, guys, what's going on? Did you like egg a house or something?" Matt asked them with a wide smile.

"No, we were trying to stop Klaus and Stefan from being killed. But now someone has them and Caroline. And I don't know if Jeremy is okay. Can you make some phone calls and try to find out what's going on with them?" Elena begged.

Matt just stared at Elena before he let out a laugh. "Very funny, 'Lena. I see Damon's humor has rubbed off on you. Want some coffee?" Matt inquired as he headed for the coffee maker.

"No! She wants you to do what she told you to do!" Damon snarled and Matt took a step back, his hand moving to his gun.

The blonde man stared down Damon with a worried expression. "Man, what are you on?"

"Nothing!" Elijah yelled as he yanked on his own cuffs.

They were interrupted when there were the sounds of arguing from the front of the station. "What's going on?" Matt called.

A deputy came back to answer. "They found the Halloween Killer," he said with a grin before he spotted Elena. "Shit. She looks just like that girl."

"What?" Matt looked at Elena.

"Who found her?" Elijah snapped with a look that made Damon and Elena exchange a long look.

"At the Gilbert House. Jeremy Gilbert and a group of his friends took her into citizen's arrest after she tried to kill Jeremy," the deputy said.

"Is my brother here?" Elena asked and the deputy looked down at her. Elena ignored him, shouting, "Jeremy!"

"Elena! Let me go back there. I need to talk to my sister," Jeremy was telling someone and then he appeared with an irritated looking girl in a hooded jacket. Her wrists were bond behind her back and Jeremy was shoving her forward.

"Is there anyone else with you?" Elijah asked. "Is Kol with you?"

"No, he was trying to help me when… this… stabbed him in the arm. Liv and Tyler took him to the hospital," Jeremy told them.

"No!" Elijah moaned, gaining the attention of the girl that Jeremy was holding.

"Hello, Elijah. Funny meeting you here. I've been looking for you all night. Why don't you give me a kiss, lover?" the girl said, pushing her body toward Elijah, causing Jeremy to lose his footing for a second. She took the advantage, yanking out of his grip. Lunging forward the girl threw herself onto Elijah, knocking his chair over and wrapping her hands around his throat. "You said that you wouldn't leave me alone in there. You said you'd write and call and visit. You're a liar, like all the other boys."

"Shit," Matt yelled. He pulled the girl off and then threw her to the ground, pressing his knee into her back as her placed handcuffs on her as she laughed.

"Oh, I missed you. I hope we get the same cell. I think we need some alone time," the girl was saying to Elijah as Matt shoved her into a seat, far away from Elijah and pulled her hood down.

Damon, Elena, Matt and Hayley were shocked to see that the girl did look exactly like Elena. "What?" Elena muttered.

"Katherine. I did not mean to lead you on," Elijah began when Katherine let out a laugh.

"You're such an idiot, Elijah. You're just like all the other boys. They all say they'll remember you. But then they find someone else who comes along," Katherine sneered at Hayley. "Don't worry, he'll find a replacement for you, too."

Hayley stared back at Katherine with a sneer of her own. "You're really crazy, you know that, right? I'm not with Elijah."

"Aren't you? My bad. Oh, well. Then I guess I shouldn't have told my friends to kill your friend," Katherine shrugged before grinning.

"You had them kill Oliver!" Hayley shouted.

"No, I was talking about the other one," Katherine replied slowly as she leaned forward and stared at Hayley who looked like she was going to break her chair trying to get to Katherine. "Didn't you know? So sad. He was kind of hot."

Sitting back in her seat, Katherine turned to Elena with a smile. "There you are. I was hoping we would meet tonight. I wanted to know what I might have turned out to be if I had grown up with him," she nodded at Jeremy before turning back to Elena. "Not impressed."

"What are you talking about?" Damon snapped at Katherine.

"Your girlfriend's the one with the brains. So don't strain yourself trying to figure this puzzle out," Katherine taunted Damon who already hated her.

Damon felt like nothing he had ever thought he knew was true. And all he could think about was finding Stefan because right now he was a sitting duck. Then again, so was he. "What do you want?" Damon asked Katherine who smirked at him.

"I want you to die. No, correction. I want you to suffer," Katherine said like that made a whole lot of sense. And maybe to her warped sense of the world it did.

"Why?" Elena repeated. "Because you hate guys because you can't find someone to love you. Or is it because you just like to hurt people because it satisfies some hole inside you."

Katherine began to chuckle. "Oh, look whose using their two whole classes in psychology." Elena's eyes widened. "Yeah, I know about your transcript. I also know when you lost your V-card to Damon. I know so much about you, Elena. Why? Because it was all supposed to be mine."

"Lady, you're nuts," Damon snapped. Man, he was sick of Halloween and it was far from over.

"What don't you like about me? Katherine asked Damon with a pout. "Trust me, you would like me better if I'd been here instead of her."

"But you weren't," Elena replied and Katherine sighed.

"Yes, and you can't go back. You just have to move forward. And I do so see myself with a very bright future," the doppleganger said. Or at least Damon hoped that she was a doppleganger because he did not want to believe that his Elena shared DNA with this psycho.

"Times up," Katherine announced with a gleeful smile as she looked toward the clock which read 2:35 a.m.

There were cries from the lobby of the Sherriff's station and all eyes moved in that direction as Katherine suddenly fell sideways and moved her feet under her arms so that her cuffed hands were in front. And so was the gun that she had taken from Matt. "Right on time," she cried as two women came walking through with their hoods up. One was swinging an axe and the other was holding a gun in one hand and a knife in the other.

"I don't why you ever doubted us?" the woman with the gun replied as she looked around and spotted Elijah. "There you are, little brother," she said, and pushed her hood down and came to look down at him. "I've been looking forward to this meeting for a long time."

Damon thought "I am so sorry, Stefan. I hope that you'll get out of this alive."

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HalfmylifeDE: Thank you. I know. Poor Rebekah… We will have to wait and see if Kai is dead or not. There are a lot of Delena moments in this chapter.

Peace,

Jessica