Damon felt how thin Mimi was, how cool she was. He could hear her irregularly accelerated breathing, her frantic pulse, he could almost taste Mimi's fear and panic. He stroked her for some time after she had fallen asleep. Then he put his hand on the back of Mimi's neck and squeezed tightly, twisting quickly and efficiently. Mimi became completely limp and she could no longer hear a pulse or breathing. He got up and carried her to the medbay. Adam was already there. Damon lowered Mimi onto the bed and gently supported her broken neck. He effectively secured Mimi in shackles and stripped her of her clothes. Before anything else, he put Mimi's full body through a CT scan. Samuel was on his way but it would take him another 6 hours. Once the scan was complete Damon moved Mimi straight into the operating theatre. He broke Mimi's neck again. Then he went to operate on all the bullets that were found in the scan, Samuel arrived while he was still in surgery. Samuel asked " How many bullets? " Damon grunted and pointed to the container where he dropped another bullet. Mimi's healing ability was not working and Damon had managed to repair some of the internal damage with his own blood but he did have to stitch her up. Damon said "I've kept her neck broken. I haven't given her any medicine, we'll see how she is when she wakes up. If the rage is down then good, soon all the physical damage is repaired, the chemical, well, that takes time. "They moved Mimi together to the patient's bed and Damon put the fluid and nutrition drip on full the moment he heard Mimi's heartbeat. She would still be in restraints at least for the duration of the drips.
I woke up. My rage was gone or gone down, whatever it was doing now. My neck was really tender and I knew what had been done to me more than once. But it doesn't matter. Always less medication. I still felt very much the effects of the drugs in my mind and everywhere. The poison that krycheck put in me, I still felt the muscle pain. Nausea, photophobia. All of them were there. And I was in restraints. Damon and Samuel came to my bedside. "How are you feeling, baby?" Damon asked. I said, "I'd feel better if I could get these shackles off." Samuel smiled and said, " Do you feel wise now?" I looked at Samuel for a moment and chuckled. Wise, indeed. Damon said "Baby, the restraints will stay on for the duration of the drips, and just so you know, my vampire side woke up. So at some point, I might have a taste of you." Oh, nice to have another vampire drinking from me. Fine, we'll be a blood bank then. I tried to wrench my restraints off and only managed to cut a gash on my wrist. It didn't heal. Damon had a weird look on his face and he took off on a wander somewhere. Samuel put a plaster on my wrist. Then Samuel went to see what Damon was doing.
Damon found a jar and stuck his teeth through the lid of the jar and something dripped into the jar in a steady stream. Damon had tasted a strange taste in his mouth when Mimi had cut her wrist and he had found that his teeth were leaking - they had never leaked before. Samuel came over to look, smiled, and said "Oh you're one of those vampires. Well, that might be good if we could find out what you're making now, probably something for Mimi, but it could be anything from a blood clotting drug to an anesthetic. You, Damon, are a tooth vampire. You have teeth that make substances. And they react to Mimi's blood. Congratulations. It's just that at some point you can't help yourself when you have to drain all the stuff directly into Mimi's vein. I wonder how she'd like that." Damon was silent. Tooth vampire. He'd heard of them and had thought it was Nicholas himself who had personally slaughtered every last one of them for the sole reason that they might one day make a substance against him. Damon now looked at the jar as his teeth calmed. He opened the lid and sniffed. This was an anesthetic, he already knew that for a fact. According to his teeth, Mimi should sleep well. Damon decided to test. He went over to Mimi and pulled the band-aid off her wrist so he could smell the blood. He concentrated and bent down and licked the blood. He bit her wrist so he could get more blood in his mouth. Now he could feel something still processing the blood.
Damon and Samuel went off to talk about something and I tried to find at least some sort of position where something didn't tear or outright hurt. No luck. Just had to last .10 weeks. I knew I was being sampled every once in a while when Krycehck handled I also knew he was the underling or follower or protégé of the guy who originally programmed me to kill Nick. Whatever. I started to hate brainwashing attempts. And drugs in general. I didn't want to be this messed up. Then Damon came back and took the band-aid off my wrist and sniffed, then licked oh he also tasted and bit and really sucked my blood. The bite marks disappeared, as did the original wound. Damon again went for a walk. These men were not in a very talkative mood. Damon wandered around the medbay with a frown on his face and Samuel began to browse through the medicines I had brought. There was a surprisingly good collection of them. Damon wandered around for a while rubbing his forehead, then he came and unlocked my shackles, turned me on my side, and came to lie down beside me, stuck his teeth into my neck, and started to drain what felt like velvet from my veins. The sensation was extraordinary. I fell asleep immediately.
Damon felt a headache start between his eyes. He rubbed it casually as the ache slowly spread throughout his head and now even up to his teeth. Teeth. They reacted with Mimi's blood and Damon felt his mouth crack. He must put this directly into Mimi. Damon went over to Mimi's bed and laid the side down. He unlocked Mimi from the restraints and turned her on her side facing him then he got in next to Mimi so that Mimi's neck was just at the right biting distance. Samuel came over to lift the board up. Damon didn't say a word as he placed Mimi's head so that he could bite his teeth right into the vein. Damon felt the pressure begin to settle and Mimi was already in a deep sleep.
When Damon's tooth tips pierced the vein wall, they released a small chemical that relaxed the vein and caused it to expand and thicken so that the teeth could not puncture it. Mimi's vein also grew attached to Damon's teeth, so in a way it took root. Damon himself fell into a kind of sleep as he let his teeth work. Every so often, the millimeter-sized clusters of sensory cells at the tips of the teeth would take a sample of Mimi's blood and the teeth would react by either adding new material or changing their ratios.
Samuel watched while they both slept. Mimi slept on the power of whatever Damon was draining into her veins and Damon himself was in a kind of sparing mode. Samuel dimmed the lights in the medbay and closed the door and went to Adam's. Adam was making dinner. "Adam, did you know that Damon is a tooth vampire? That means his teeth make substances. For Mimi. Now at this very moment, Salvatore has his teeth embedded in Mimi's throat and is leaking Lord knows what substances. They're both kind of dormant." Adam shrugged all the things that come with this pack. Tooth vampires.