Nicholas held Mimi in his arms and used all his vampire strength to alleviate Mimi's suffering as much as possible. The drive seemed to go on forever. Finally, they were at the house, where Samuel was already waiting. They gently carried Mimi inside, straight to the medbay. Nick took Samuel aside. "This is bad, really bad, but Mimi is in pain, can you get her to sleep or even give her painkillers?" Samuel said, " Of course, we'll get her to sleep first and then take it from there." Samuel went to the medicine cabinet and took out a locked box and took a key from his pocket. He then opened the box and took a needle and syringe from the table and drew four different medicines into the same syringe. " This should work. There are two painkillers and one antibiotic in it." Samuel found one of the cannulas, where he inserted the needle and pushed the plunger.
The car journey was a pain, my heart was happily circling around in wolfsbane and every place was aflame. Nick tried to help but it didn't help much. When the car finally stopped and I felt myself being carried inside, I just tried to hang on. I thought to myself, I wonder if there's going to be another batch of metal being pulled out. As I felt the sedative kick in I was happy for the first time in my life to be anaesthetized.
The men unwrapped Mimi and Samuel took a sharp intake of breath. Mimi's whole body was covered in sores and from the waist down it looked as if she had no skin at all. Samuel took out one of the pools and poured a large sack of white powder into it, then he began to pour water into the pool. The powder gelled and the water became gelatinous. When the pool was full, the water gel had the consistency of a jelly-like skin gel. Samuel lifted Mimi into the pool and submerged her up to her neck.
He would continue to treat Mimi in this way. In 12 hours, the healing jelly would have done its job. The jelly would draw the aconitum out of Mimi's system, it would help the silver burns and aconitum burns heal and relieve the pain. Mimi would stay asleep as long as he had removed as much of the silver and aconitum from her body as possible.
12 hours later, he lifted her out of the jelly for a while, removed all the extra cannulas and trocars, and flushed her bone marrow as best he could. The skin was already much calmer. Samuel made another jelly and put Mimi in it, now Mimi had a silver binder and aconitum neutralizer in addition to the sleeping pill. every twelve hours Samuel always repeated the same, picked Mimi up, rinsed out the cavities, anything he could find that had only silver or aconitum, and put in a new binder. Adam sat in the medbay by Mimi's pool and waited. Neither man slept, they ate what they could remember. Then a week later, when Bran came back, he looked once at Samuel and once at Adam and said. "'Now, you two, go to bed and eat. I'll take care of Mimi, I'll be fine." he gave no room for argument and when the men went to bed Bran sent a text message. It contained the address of the house.
Damon Salvatore was puzzled. Ever since he saw the men pack this woman into the car, Damon couldn't stop thinking. And when he went back to his favorite bar that night for another drink of bourbon, his thoughts were suddenly somewhere else besides his usual circle of self-pity and self-blame. The evening took an even newer turn when a young boy with old eyes came up to her at the bar. Damon was no spring chicken when it came to disguises. One look and he could see straight away that the young man was not what he seemed.
Now this young man was the one who put it all on the line. "I'm Marrok, you may not know who or what I am but let's just say I'm the top boss of the werewolves of North America, a werewolf myself. First of all, I want to thank you for what you did today. Mimi is so special, you wouldn't believe it. "Damon was silent for a moment and said, " Pretty unique case if you can take the amount of silver and wolfsbane and handling those idiots did today." Bran said, " As you can see, Mimi can take anything, she can't die and that's why she's not afraid of anything and gets into these situations. As you noticed, my friend Adam is a security consultant, he too is a werewolf, and he had his own people protecting Mimi, but no human, no matter how trained is no match for two vampires. I am now looking for a slightly better protector for Mimi. I can make you a wolf too, I know you are a vampire but I think a wolf would bring more strength to the game."
Damon thought for a moment and said "I'm not a babysitter, not interested." Bran sighed, looked at Damon, and said " Fine let's go over to the corner table and I'll tell you all about it." Bran told everything, although he didn't mention the couple of times he had tried to kill Mimi. After hearing the whole story, Damon's expression changed. He had seen the challenge. "And then there's another problem," Bran said. Damon asked " What?" Bran replied "I don't know if you are aware of all the werewolf-related things, but this is such a secret that I wish you would not share this information. " Bran continued in a low voice and said one word that got Damon's interest fully piqued. "Heat," Bran said. He continued "Mimi is a virgin, she has never even kissed anyone and she has never had a boyfriend. Now if you don't get on board with this, it will probably fall on Adam or even Nicholas to seduce her and help with the heat. After all, Nick is a hybrid, so he is suited to the heat therapy." This made the hairs on the back of Damon's neck stand up. He said to Bran. "Make me a wolf. Don't bring the Original brothers into this. I can take care of Mimi's heat when the time comes. When do we leave?" Bran briefly explained what the turning would entail and it would be about a week before they could return to the house. Damon nodded firmly. The men finished their drinks and Damon drove after Bran to a remote cabin.
There were cabins like this for Bran to spare a little everywhere. Damon went into the cabin and waited. He took off his shirt and went to sit on the ground. The door opened and in rushed a wolf. This one was small but it attacked Damon, knocking him on his back and biting him everywhere, arms, legs, stomach. The wolf did no lethal damage and then bit its own lip and spilled its own blood and saliva on the wounds. After six hours the wolf stopped mauling Damon as the wounds began to heal rapidly. It told Bran that stage one was done.
Damon stayed in the cabin for a total of five days. He successfully changed shape without a full moon with Bran's help and much to his surprise. To Damon, the wolf was night-black except for one snow-white patch on his left shoulder. In the exact same spot, Mimo just had a patch of night-black but on his right shoulder.
Bran has not yet said anything about it. He left Damon to his work and said "I'll send you the address of the house when you can come." When Bran returned to the house and put the weary Samuel and Adam to rest, he then invited Damon in. Damon arrived within half an hour. Bran gave a tour of the Arizona House and finally took Damon to the medbay. Mimi was lying in jelly. Her upper torso was almost healed, but there were still scabs on her back, from the waist down she had delicate skin already growing, it was still red and Damon could almost see the muscles under the thin skin.
Bran said "Mimi is still asleep, Samuel has left the drip bags with the stuff ready so you just have to change them. You can change the jelly in about 10 hours." Bran showed him how to make the jelly. Damon nodded in thought and started reading up on Mimi's medical records and treatments. What a lot Mimi had already suffered. The medicine list was impressive. Apparently, Samuel had been keeping Mimi asleep for up to 20 hours a day at some point. Damon didn't agree with all of Samuel's treatment instructions and he decided that he would do things with Mimi a little differently.
At first, Damon wasn't going to put Mimi in any more jelly. He looked in the cupboard for bandages and dressings and gauze and applied gel and antibiotic ointment to them. For some reason, he knew these would work. He added some muscle relaxants and painkillers to the sedative and waited an hour for the drugs to take effect. Then he lifted the unconscious woman onto the treatment table and took a good look at Mimi for the first time. Mimi's facial features were delicate, her eyes quite large and for some reason, Damon knew they were a dark blue of blueberry. She had dark eyebrows and long black eyelashes. There were dark circles under her eyes and no matter how deeply asleep Mimi was, she looked somehow tired.
Damon bound all the scabby cuts with gel bandages and also put bandages on Mimi's lower body. Then he put plenty of nutrient solutions in the drip, tucked Mimi warmly into the hospital bed, and continued reading. He changed Samuel's IV bag of tranquilizers a bit, adding another sedative, making a cocktail that would keep Mimi even better asleep.
When Samuel woke up three days later. Damon had already developed his own routine for treating Mimi. He had gotten most of the wounds closed up and the lower body no longer needed to be bandaged, the skin had grown well. The only thing that bothered Damon was what he couldn't do anything about. How does anyone recover mentally from that kind of abuse? Damon had read in Mimi's papers about her insomnia and possible nightmares. For some reason, he felt an overwhelming desire to protect her.
Adam was pleased, not only did Damon do the job he was told and put Mimi right, but he also challenged Samuel. It was good that someone challenged Samuel and got him to argue. Damon and Samuel could go over Mimi's history for hours and then consider different treatments together