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Chapter 39: A Rose's Thorns

The light shone in through Sakura's window, in her room at the boarding house on Damon, waking him up. He looked over to see Sakura still looking through varies spell books. Figuring Sakura had been up all night, Damon used his vampire speed to sneak up on her. "Break time!" Damon said beside her and picked her up. "You my dear, need a nap!" Damon flopped her onto the bed.

"Damon?!" Sakura complained, "I need to figure out how to stop this, all of it!"

"Well, it will still be there later, so sleep," Damon laid beside her and leaned on his side. One arm held his head up, his other arm was across Sakura's stomach, keeping her there.

"Are you seriously going to keep me here?" Sakura glared at him.

"Yes, now at least take a nap. Come on I fell last night on your bed, while you were ignoring me for those books!" Damon pouted.

"Fine," Sakura sighed and closed her eyes. Within a minute, she dozed off.

Damon glanced over at her messy desk with papers and books. He got up and went over to take a closer look. "In Latin, Latin..." Damon mumbled, "How does she understand this?" Damon found some papers with her writing on it, translating some of it, "Oh no, what are you planning?" Damon frowned as he looked at it.

"Sakura?" Sakura groggily opened her eyes to see Elena at her doorway, and Damon was no where in sight. "You alright? You're normally up and about at this time," Elena stated coming into her room.

"Yeah, didn't sleep much," Sakura yawned, "Just a nap."

"Oh..." Elena looked uncomfortable.

"I was up researching..." Sakura glared at her slightly.

"Oh!" Elena seemed relieved.

"Anyways... What's up?" Sakura stretched getting off her bed.

"Stefan is set on finding Isobel, thinks she can help. I'm going to check on Rose, want to come?" Elena asked.

"Yeah, I wanted to see her actually," Sakura picked up a book and some papers off her desk and noticed they had been moved. "Damon..." Sakura rolled her eyes. "Let's go," they headed downstairs to the library, where Damon and Rose were.

"Definitely better. Right, guys?" Damon said referring to Rose's wolf bite, which now looked infected.

"Uh, it's not bad," Elena lied.

"Rose come and sit, I want to try something," Rose sat down beside her. Sakura looked at the bite and held her hands close to it, "Omni bentidoct mutus moderatus tabes accelero aevus emperoct delego!" A dark light emitted from Sakura's hand.

"Oh wow, that feels a lot better!" Rose exclaimed.

Sakura smiled at her and backed off, "It's not a cure, but it'll ease it." Sakura got off the couch and cringed in pain a bit, she tried to hide it as she walked by the others.

A hand appeared on her shoulder, "What did you do?" Damon whispered in her ear. Sakura cringed, "Sakura?" He pulled her aside while Elena was talking with Rose.

"Damon..." Sakura struggled.

He pulled back her shirt collar, where Rose was bitten to see a discoloured area. "What did you do?" Damon repeated himself.

"You were going through my stuff, don't you know already?" Sakura scowled.

"Not really," Damon pondered. "There were a lot of papers," he complained. "I don't know how you read all this stuff, and understand it," Damon frowned.

"I learned how to..." Sakura trailed off.

"I don't think I want to know how," Damon seemed to be off in his own mind. Noticing this, Sakura tried to move away, but he snapped back to reality, "I don't think so."

"In all honesty, I think she's going to die from this bite. I can't seem to find a cure. I think it has to do with blood, but it needs to be specific," Sakura tried to explain.

"And that 'thing' on your shoulder?" Damon asked again.

"I'm trying to ease her pain, in her last moments," Sakura bit her lip, "It's only temporary on me."

"Right, temporary... So you're feeling her pain, and with a constant spell like that, it's probably sapping your energy," Damon suggested. Sakura sighed and looked away, "That's a yes." Damon sighed, "What am I going to do with you, such a martyr."

"Love me, hate me, whatever it is, Elena is coming," Sakura pointed out.

"Right," Damon kissed her forehead, "Like I could hate you."

"Hey guys," Elena came up to them awkwardly.

"Where's Stefan?" Damon turned to her.

"He left. I need you to talk to him. He's convinced that he has to find Isobel, but I think that's going to upset Elijah," Elena seemed worried.

"No can do. I'm with Stefan on this one, but if you could play nurse for a little while…" Damon trailed off seeing Rose walk up to them.

"It's not necessary," Rose didn't want a babysitter.

"It is necessary. Elena is a do-gooder. It's in her nature, she just can't resist," Damon smiled slyly.

Sakura just smiled at them and walked away, Damon followed her right away. In the next room Elena quickly stepped beside them, "Is she gonna die?" she asked.

"Yeah," Sakura sighed.

"Probably. The wolf bite caused some kind of infection and it's getting worse," Damon frowned.

"Like poison?" Elena asked.

"I don't know, Elena. I'm not an expert in the field," Damon rolled his eyes.

"I'm sorry," Elena seemed taken aback.

"Actually, yes..." Sakura trailed off, "Unlike him, I have tried to research. She's likely to become dangerous," Sakura warned them, "Hallucinations are likely." You know the cure, the Fenrir's voice echoed in Sakura's head, Klaus. "Just make sure she's comfortable and call if something happens," Sakura suggested.

"Yeah, okay," Elena seemed sad.

Sakura pulled out her phone and started texting, quickly getting a response. "Who are you..." Damon started to say, but was cut off by Sakura.

"Leilani is on her way, she'll help take care of Rose," Sakura smiled sadly.

"The more the merrier I suppose," Rose sighed.

Sakura and Damon headed out the front door, not really sure where to go or what to do. Damon stopped for a moment and looked on his phone, "One moment." Sakura walked down the driveway and leant against his car, waiting. Suddenly, the pain from Rose's bite spiked. Sakura turned away from Damon's direction and gripped it, leaning over his car. "How bad is it?" Damon asked, surprising her. He looked down at her seriously. She looked at where he was, to beside the car, where he was now. "Vampire super speed, remember?" he noticed her confusing.

"Not that bad," Sakura stood up, laughing it off.

"Liar," Damon glared at her. "Maybe you should stay here," Damon's tone of voice changed completely.

"And what are you going to do?" Sakura crossed her arms and glared back at him.

"Not much, drive around, think," Damon answered vaguely.

"Now who's the liar?" Sakura smirked and got into the passengers side of his car.

"Yeah, yeah," Damon mumbled and got in. "Jules is at the Grill," he told he while starting the car.

"Careful," Sakura warned him.

They headed to the Mystic Grill, and as soon as Damon saw Jules, he headed straight for her. Stefan stepped in their way, "What are you doing here?" Damon asked.

"I was waiting for you guys. Listen, there's a lot of people here," Stefan tried to reason with him.

"Oh, damn. My plan was to rip her spleen through her back," Damon rolled his eyes.

"Not that I'd let him do that here," Sakura sighed.

"Hey, listen, I know you're upset about Rose..." Stefan started to say.

"Why does everyone think that I'm upset about Rose? I'm fine. I don't know if you know this but sometimes, vampires die. I'm gonna have a friendly chat with the lady wolf, brother. Ease up," Damon rolled his eyes.

"Yeah, friendly chat," Sakura glared up at him.

Damon walked ahead to Jules. "Keep an eye on him," Stefan pleaded with Sakura, before answering his phone.

"Well, if it isn't the one I meant to kill… I'll have to get that right next time," Sakura heard Jules say as she walked up, "And the interesting one. I have no quarrel with you, girl."

"But I have one with you," Sakura stated.

"You won't live to see another full moon unless… Unless you tell me how to cure a wolf bite and then I won't kill you," Damon frowned.

"Promise?" Jules asked.

"Yes," Damon agreed.

"Bite me," Jules taunted him. She went to get up, but couldn't move. "I'm not afraid of you," Jules spat.

"Then you are very, very stupid," Damon snarled.

"How's your friend? Rose, is that her name? Have the chills started? The unbearable pain?" Jules smirked.

"Not quite," Sakura smiled slyly. Klaus, the voice echoed in her head again.

"If there's a cure, tell me or start watching your back," Damon snarled.

Go after Klaus, the Fenrir laughed.

"Did I mention the dementia? It'll eat away her brain. Soon she'll be rabid. You want a cure? I'll tell you the only cure that exists: take a stake and drive it through her heart," Jules frowned seriously. She pulled her arm away from Damon roughly, and left.

"Are you okay?" Damon asked Sakura, noticing an odd expression on her face, "You in la-la land or something?"

"It's nothing," Sakura pushed a strand of hair out of her face.

"Is it the..." Damon pointed to her neck area, where the bite would be.

"No, well that's gotten worse, but it's not that. It's..." Sakura pointed at her wolf tattoo on her right shoulder.

"Oh," Damon frowned, "If only I could find a way..." Damon trailed off.

"Don't mess with it, it's my problem and you'll just get hurt trying," Sakura gritted her teeth as she turned away from him.

"Like that'll happen," Damon scoffed.

Elena left to get some clean sheets for Rose, and Leilani was in the kitchen trying to make a meal. "Leilani, where's Rose?" Elena asked panicking.

"I thought she was still upstairs!" Leilani bit her lip.

"I'll call Damon," Elena pulled out her phone, "It's Elena, I'm worried about Rose. I think you should come home."

Leilani pulled out her phone as well, "Sakura! Why don't you answer! Rose is getting worse, get here asap."

"Did you hear that?" Elena asked. Leilani nodded and they followed the noise. They found Rose, with now empty, bloody bags all around her. She was also currently consuming one.

"Oh my god," Elena stepped away, scared.

"Rose," Leilani covered her mouth in shock.

"Katerina," Rose looked at Elena.

"No!" they said in unison.

"Lux contego," Leilani said as she and Elena ran, to her surprise it worked, and a barrier made of light was holding Rose back.

"Rose, stop, stop, it's Elena. I'm not Katherine," Elena stopped to try and get through to her, "You're hallucinating. I'm not Katherine."

"She's not stopping and that won't hold much longer," Leilani squealed. Elean grabbed her hand and ran up into Stefan's room. Elena opened up all the curtains, letting sunlight in, while Leilani pushed furniture in the way of the door. Elena broke a chair and attempted to make a stake. They heard Rose turn the handle on the other side of the door.

"Elena? I know that's you and not Katerina. Elena, please, I need your help," Rose pleaded.

"Let's just wait for someone to show up," Leilani suggested, sitting on Stefan's bed.

"Yeah," Elena sighed and sat beside her, "Where did you learn that spell?"

"Well, since I know I have light powers, I assumed I could do magic like Sakura. So I've been studying, but it's a lot harder then it looks, I've barely been able to use magic," Leilani explained.

"Maybe we should just head back home?" Sakura suggested to Damon, as they weren't making any progress in their search, "Check on Rose."

"Well, based on this message from Elena, yeah," Damon put his phone away.

"Something happen?" Sakura asked.

"I assume so," Damon sighed, "Alright, let's go."

"Something's off," Sakura said as they reached the door to the boarding house.

"Yeah?" Damon glanced around and opened the door, "Careful then."

"You go that way, I'll go this way," Sakura suggested, he nodded and they separated. Sakura headed into the kitchen, to see that someone had started a sandwich, but obviously didn't finish. Sakura head a small squeal and rushed back in Damon's direction. She saw Elena and Leilani holding stakes, and Damon in front of them, looking down.

"Found them," Damon stated, "But they don't know where Rose is."

"I don't think she's here," Sakura focused on the house, "No." Sakura slowed down her breathing and focused on Rose, "Interessari, interressarium, Iiteressari, interressarium," Sakura repeated herself. Suddenly her head shot up and she pointed. "In that direction somewhere, the school maybe," Sakura sighed.

Damon's phone rang, "The Sheriff," Damon said before answering. "Hey Liz, the high school," Damon glanced at Sakura, "I'll be right there." He hung up, "Let's go," they followed Damon out to his car.

They arrived, Damon parked his car. "Let me talk to Liz first, stay by the car," Damon got out and headed over.

The girls got out of his car and gazed across the scene. "Sakura, how do you do it?" Leilani asked her.

"Do what?" Sakura looked at her.

"Magic," Leilani bit her lip, "It's so hard, and I suck at it."

"You don't suck, if anything that saved us today," Elena stated.

"I don't know. I've trained in so many ways, and my powers are such a part of me. Spells are an extension of that, I'm not saying it's easy. It really drains you actually, and it's dangerous. You know what, might be best if you don't use it too much," Sakura rambled. Leilani pouted, crossed her arms and looked away. Elena put a hand on her shoulder comfortingly, Leilani smiled at her.

Elena pulled her phone out and left a message for Stefan, "Hey, Stefan, it's me. I don't know where you are but please call me. It's important." Damon came back over, "Hey. Have you heard from him? Do you know what he's up to?"

"My baby brother is not exactly my priority right now. Take this," Damon handed out stakes to each of them, Sakura raised an eyebrow, figuring she didn't need one, but he pushed it towards her, forcing her to take it. "Come on, let's go," he said after they were set up. They headed to the west side of the school, not too long later they heard a girl scream.

"This way," Sakura ran up ahead, but Damon passed her quickly with his vampire speed.

"Rose, stop!" Damon yelled seeing her biting a girl.

She rushed towards him in a rage, but was stopped by Sakura, "Rose..."

"Rose, Rose! It's me, it's Damon," he walked up to her and cupped her face in his hands.

Rose started to looked around and saw the girl's body, "Did I do this? I never meant to heart anyone. I never wanted to hurt anyone."

"I know," Damon said sadly.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry," Rose said looking at Elena.

"Come on, let's get you home," Damon said, signaling for Sakura to release her.

"I'm sorry I couldn't cure you, Rose," Sakura frowned.

"You eased my pain, that alone means the world to me," Rose smiled at her.

The headed back to the boarding house, and got Rose into her bed. Damon was in her room, walking with her. Sakura went into her room and sat down on her bed with a sigh. Everything started going blurry, and there was a sharp pain in her chest. Next thing she knew she dropped to the floor, into darkness.

"Sakura," Leilani yelled in a sing-song voice, "Where are you? Um, Rose is.. well.." Leilani went into Sakura's room to find her on the floor, with a pool of blood beside her. "Sakura!?" Leilani ran up to her in a panic. "Sakura," she shook her urgently. "Damon, hurry!" Leilani cried out.

Surely enough, Damon appeared at her door. He looked down stunned and confused. Then it hit him, he looked towards where Rose was then back at Sakura, "No, no, no, no, no," Damon shook his head and rushed up to her. He pulled her up on his lap and bit his wrist, "Drink, please drink."

"Oh my god, what's going on?" Elena asked.

"I don't know," Leilani had her hand covering her mouth and she was trying to not cry.

Sakura breathed in quickly and started to cough. Damon pulled her into a hug, "Don't you ever do that to me again," he kept hold of her.

"What happened?" Sakura breathed heavily.

"That spell that connected you and Rose!" Damon growled, "I staked her!" Damon hugged her tighter.

"Oh..." Sakura bit her lip.

Leilani was about to reach out to her when Elena stopped her. She shook her head and pulled her out of the room, "Let's leave them be for a moment."

"I'm okay," Sakura looked up at him tired.

He picked her up and set her in bed. "Stay here, I have a friend to hand over to Liz," Damon kissed her on the forehead and rushed off.

The girls came back in after he left, but Sakura had already fallen asleep. "I'm going to clean up this blood," Leilani told Elena.

"I'll help," Elena smiled at her weakly.

"It's so hard having human feelings," Damon stumbled into Sakura's room, obviously drunk and upset about Rose. "It was supposed to be me, you know. Then you go and try and take her pain. Technically, so did I, I guess... But that caused you pain," Damon rambled. He sat down on her bed, with his back to her. He set his drink on the nightstand and glanced over his shoulder at her, "I don't know what I would have done, if you had died along with Rose. I should have known you would feel it, with that link you made." Damon sighed and laid on his side, leaning his head in his hand, beside her. He laid his other hand on hers, gripping it slightly, "Maybe the others are right, I'm bad for you. I don't know what to do, you keep ending up hurt. I shouldn't be selfish with you, but I can't stand the thought of being without you right now." Damon sat up, still holding her hand, "Please stay with me," he smiled sadly. He got up to leave then felt Sakura's hand grip his. He looked down at her to see that she was still asleep, but her hand was gripping his tightly.

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