I woke up. I was alone. I started thinking about what happened and slowly it all started to come back. The torture, the drugs, the rage, Damon. And how he bit me on the neck and I felt like my veins were leaking velvet. Then nothing. Apparently, we had changed places somewhere in between because we were back in Chicago. At least I wasn't in an incubator or in restraints. I was shockingly cold but the first thing I did was rip out every cannula and tie the tubes so they couldn't be used. I wasn't compatible with them yet, and I woke up from an IV. I just knew that this experience was going to go to the same place where the nightmares come from and now I had new material again. I was so cold I was shaking. My muscles ached and the light hurt my eyes. '

I wanted to be in my own bed. I got the side of the bed down and sat up. A huge dizziness hit me, but I held on. I don't want to be here now. When I want to be in the warmth of my own bed to recover. For some reason, it's so damn cold in here and the lights look quite yellow. I stood up and held on to the table until I could steady myself. I started hobbling out of the medbay and the hallway never looked so long. Halfway down the aisle my legs decided to play jelly and gave way completely so I slumped to the floor. I got on all fours and started to crawl. Every once in a while I would run out of steam and collapse in a heap on the floor. And then I kept going again, persevering. I got to the stairs and it took me a while. I congratulated myself when I got up the stairs and into the hallway. It wouldn't be long to my room now but I was exhausted, cold, and aching all over.

I was halfway through when someone walked up to me and squatted down " Baby, what on earth? How are you... Oh damn you're burning up, what's this all about? How did you get a fever?" Damon asked almost to himself as he examined me. I curled up into a ball and was shaking. Samuel also came over and said " What on earth Mimi, have you crawled all the way from medbay? Oh, it works. You have a fever. Excellent. Well, it's not excellent that you've got a fever and feel sick but this proves that you now have an immune system. The bone marrow transplant was what was needed. " Damon asked, "What bone marrow transplant?" Samuel replied "I gave Mimi your bone marrow shortly after you left. My theory is that for some reason you are each other's biological halves. If one is missing something, the other usually fills it in. Here's proof. Take Mimi and we'll take her to that smaller medbay, it might be easier to treat her."

Damon put his hands under me and lifted me into his arms. He said "Mimi, you are still in very bad condition, you need treatment, my teeth removed all the drugs from your system but now you have a fever and you are extremely thin and weak. Now we will go to medbay and see if I can actually give you a full course of fever medicine and check what bug you have so that we can treat that too, but no more crawling around on the floor. Okay?" I grunted in response because I couldn't do anything else. Damon put me down on the patient bed and took my hand in his and bit my wrist, drinking my blood. He didn't drink much, then he started walking again, apparently processing my blood and developing a fever medicine.

Samuel went over to Damon " Well have you developed anything or do you know what the fever is?" Damon replied " Strep, a new strain, I don't know where she got it from whether it's been in her system all this time and now just got a foothold. A febrifuge is being developed and I feel that when we give the febrifuge and the fever goes down we are giving a sedative. Because if I know Mimi at all we will just be picking her up off the floor for the next week. Also, nutrient drip and strong. I'm doing the antibiotics at the same time I'm about to take a vessel to start making. The antibiotic has to be diluted and the fever medicine is oral." Damon walked to one level and took a couple of dishes from a cupboard. He put some plastic wrap over the dishes and bit through the wrap and started draining. First Damon made the fever medicine. It was pink and he drained 500 ml of it. That would be 100 doses. One dose was 5 ml. He handed it to Samuel with instructions who took an empty bottle from the cupboard and poured the medicine into the bottle and wrote the label on it. He put the medicine in a 5 ml syringe. He would go and give it to Mimi in a minute. Damon was already making the antibiotic concentrate and it was bright yellow.

"Mimi, this here is a fever medicine and this is to be taken orally. Damon just made this so this should work. Open your mouth and I'll give you this." Samuel came up to me and said. I opened my mouth and the stuff he injected into my mouth was incredibly bad tasting but I swallowed it all. It was like olives soaked in mustard with herring broth and beetroot. Yuck. I couldn't stand anything vinegary and that was as awful tasting as it gets. But it worked. After ten minutes I felt hot, sweat was pouring out everywhere, and I suddenly felt dirty as hell but I was weak as a kitten, I couldn't even lift the blankets off my body. Damon had made some bright yellow stuff and then diluted it in five bags, I didn't want any IVs now. I decided that the tubes would come out quickly if they put one in me. Damon came up to me and said "It's working, your temperature is getting normal. I don't know about the duration but there are 99 doses left."

I said, "You had to make the worst-tasting fever medicine on the planet. " Damon smiled and I watched as he took the syringe off the table and pulled the needle cover off, felt my arm for a moment and plunged the needle into my muscle, and pressed the plunger. I looked murderously. I was too weak to defend myself and this guy was just coldly jabbing me with injections. "What did you just put in me?" Damon smirked and stroked my hair. He said "A sedative, I just sedated you. Don't worry it will help, we'll get you cannulated and the antibiotic dripped. You'll probably fall asleep just from that amount of sedation too. You'll be fine. I'll take care of it, and Samuel will take care of it. We're going to start wiping you down and changing the dry linens in your bed. The medicine will help. "Oh, fuck, he drugged me. Fine. What can I do about it?

Damon got the washing-up bowl and sponge while Samuel collected all the blankets from the bed. Next Damon put a big pile of thick towels on the other bed and lifted me naked on top of the towels. They exchanged clean bed sheets and pillows on the bed. Then Damon took a sponge and began to wash me all over, wiping away sweat and dirt. They even washed my hair in a washcloth and Damon blew it dry and braided it tightly. Then they put a nightgown on me and lifted me to bed. The medicine Damon had injected into me started to take effect and I was almost unconscious. I just felt myself being lifted back up and then nothing. When I woke up I was alone and I saw that I was still on the IV. The tubes were off, the cannulas were all ripped out and I sat up. In this medbay, the beds didn't have those bed rails. I stood up and my head was spinning pretty badly again. I started staggering away and down the corridor.

Finally, I got to my own bedroom and got under the covers because it was so damn cold again. I didn't make it to the bed, I fell on the floor and my wrist hurt pretty damn bad, and my hip. I just pulled the covers off my bed and put them on. I woke up to find I was being carried and lowered back into the patient's bed. Damon. He looked at me " Baby, how many times...uh, I don't have to. Samuel and I have been picking you up off the floor in different parts of this house for a week now. Your infection isn't going anywhere when you can't stay still. That's enough. Now I'm going to give you a good dose of anesthetic strong enough to keep you asleep until that infection is gone. Mimi really. How can you not believe and understand."

I was quite embarrassed because this was actually the first time Damon had ever really gotten angry or upset with me. When I was impossible. They had faithfully carried me to the medbay and given me a fever medicine that I had spat out of my mouth. Kept me sedated. Tried to keep me. But I just crawled out of bed and started moving. Again and again and again. Plus, I kept tying the tubes so they had to be changed. They didn't really appreciate that either. Damon was doing something in the medicine cabinet and he pulled out a syringe of medicine and came over to me and said " Sleepy time, baby." Then he stuck the syringe right in my heart and pushed the plunger, I fell asleep in a couple of heartbeats.

I woke up in my own bedroom. I stretched and found I was wearing only one Damon tee shirt. I felt good and found I wasn't quite so skeletal anymore. Apparently, I had been treated quite well. As if drawn by a magnet, Damon came into the room and watched me stretch for a while. He said in a soft dangerous voice "If you keep it up Mimi, you'll soon be a virgin just from your horoscope. " I pulled the covers over me and looked at Damon in shock. For some reason I looked all over Damon and found he wasn't lying, the proof in his trousers said it all. He walked over and sat on the edge of my bed. He reached over and took the blanket off my body. His hand began to roam along my body first on the shirt and then he pushed it off the shirt hem and let his hand caress my side, my stomach, my breasts again he found my nipples and began to tease them getting some interesting sensations, both breasts getting the same treatment. His hand wandered down and I squeezed my thighs tightly together, he brushed my pubic bone, and my thighs and leaned towards me and whispered " Come on baby, just spread out, you know what I can do. Maybe I'll even get a taste."

I blushed and finally, Damon pulled his hand away while he was still teasing my nipples. He said " Two months, baby. 3 weeks since I put you to sleep, we just got the infection out. And we kept you in the incubator feeding for another month. Now get dressed and come and eat, so we can get to know each other again. Even physically." I was red as a crab. I couldn't get a word out of my mouth when Damn handed me my clothes and said " By the way baby, tonight we're going to sleep up there in our shared bedroom." Oh, a new room. But this was my room. Well, I can sleep there if I have to. Damon left the room and slammed the door. I got dressed and noticed that my nipples were still showing. Well, I couldn't help it, but fuck, that guy threw me off balance.

I went into the kitchen and sat down. Damon brought a big plate of food in front of me. Adam and Samuel were already eating and they both just nodded at me. They were apparently blissfully unaware of what had been done to me. Adam said after he had eaten "We are going to drive to Montana then get some food and meet Bran and show you both a bit. There's supposed to be a wolf training exercise, so you're in charge, there's sort of always a job to be done and then we'll see if there's a problem. ' Damon just smiled and looked at me with one eyebrow slightly raised. I concentrated on eating. The drive would be a couple of days, in the car with Damon. This was going to be an interesting trip, I thought to myself. We finished eating and packed our bags. Damon had actually already packed my bags too. I didn't start to investigate what was in it.

We got in the car. Adam drove first and Samuel was in the front seat. Me and Salvatore were in the back. Damon for some reason didn't have much control over his hands, they were wandering all over me, under my clothes, I was holding my legs tightly together and I had put on a good pair of granny panties. Not the lace ones Damon had got me. We stopped every now and then each man drove for 6 hours. The drive took about 28 hours. For some strange reason, I slept quite a bit during the trip. Could it possibly have been because every time Damon came in the back seat and started to make out, we ended up kissing and he started nibbling on my ear and neck and finally sank his teeth into my neck and I felt the velvet flow? I said to Damon near the end " Do you have to velvet all that hard? You know I could be awake sometimes." Damon just smirked and didn't say anything back.