The cruise went without any problems. I wasn't with Damon or even Adam though and I thought in my mind that this was supposed to be a pack cruise, to bring the pack more together of course if Bran thought he could get into my pants then yeah, but I wasn't having any of it. The club went all right and the information I got, well it wasn't much, but every night at the nightclub, a couple of drinks and the women talked, Bran listened.

Damon was always with a different woman, probably vampires but I wasn't oriented to look at them. My stomach was if possible more tender, the Mimosa in my head was somehow tired and powerless, but I felt really good and invincible. Nothing felt off and I didn't even have the rage on display. My head ached every now and then.

After three weeks of cruising, I was feeling more invincible and healthier if possible, food was not a problem, I wasn't hungry and so I didn't always go out to eat. I was effective at avoiding men now, for some reason I didn't want anyone to pay too much attention to me.

I had been to the pharmacy for three days now to get some bandages because I wasn't getting better, but hey it doesn't matter as long as I feel well everything is fine. This young girl, actress-looking, we used to walk quite a lot together and sometimes go out for lunch and drinks, I told her about Damon and she just mumbled and looked off into the distance.

She couldn't understand why the fucking bitch wouldn't die. She had been faithfully poisoning her for almost three weeks to avenge her mother's death. She decided to take from Damon Salvatore what he loved most, his wife, Mimi. He didn't believe the rumors that Mimi couldn't die.

The coal gold should have killed her by now, she'd carefully put it in every glass of wine, but no. Then she'd put in tungsten if that would help too, not when she just seemed to be in better shape. Her mother had been turned into a vampire just after she was born and she was old, much older than anyone would believe. The eternal youth of werewolves worked very well here too.

And then his mother had gotten involved with a vampire, Salvatore, and decided to take him. And Salvatore had made her mother fall in love with him and she'd seen Damon Salvatore kill her mother and Mimi just look across the street as if it was some damn show. How Damon first comforted her mother and stroked her and then bled her dry and ripped her heart out of her chest with relish.

Well yes it would when Mimi was soulless, then that satanic Salvatore would know what she and her father had been through- this was rightly still her father's idea. He'd mislead the men when she killed that satanic bitch. She wouldn't be able to play this innocent young girl much longer, and Mimi was pretending to be so fucking perfect and calm, but not for long, her father had given her beryllium, it raises the ire in all werewolves, always no exception, it causes such a nasty pain syndrome that the rage comes out. She'd been giving Mimi beryllium for a week now, waiting for the fucking rage, and nothing.

Damon had spent all day negotiating with the idiots again and was thinking to himself that in two more fucking weeks, he hadn't even had much time to get laid because he had to play politician. He thought he'd go out for dinner and passed one of the restaurants and after a while his forehead started to streak, and his teeth seemed to be throbbing.

Well, what the fuck made his teeth nervous now. Damon walked backward and looked through the restaurant, no one was familiar. Strange. He went to his cabin and grabbed an empty bag and put the collectors in his teeth and let it drain, the amount of substances that came in was unbelievable and Damon didn't know who, why, or where. He suspected that the recipient might be Mimi because he had only reacted so strongly to Mimi, but where has she got herself into now?

When I saw Damon walk past the restaurant, I ducked into the toilet and was there for about an hour before I came out. I went to my cabin and gave Mimosa some meat if she could eat, she had been out of my head for a fortnight and was very strangely tired, and listless, getting weaker almost every day. I was in my cabin when I started to feel tired, I knew it was evening and then I went to bed and fell asleep straight away.

Damon went to Mimi's cabin and was shocked. He saw the door to the cabin open and there were medical people all over Mimi, he saw Mimi being shot with implants and then he was shocked to see Mimosa separated and completely powerless, but what the fuck for and how had they found Mimi.

Damon controlled himself as the sark came into view and said to someone. "It's just as well Marrok was smart and knows his place and gave us a target, a few more weeks and oh I've got plans in the works." Fucking Bran had now sold Mimi to Sark. Damon retreated to consider the wisest course of action. To save Mimi. That is, once those fucking scientists had left, move Mimi to safety. He knew it would take time and he went to talk to Bran.

" How the fuck can you sell Mimi to the pharmaceutical company, you know they're going to shoot Mimi's implants and extract the enzymes. " Bran sighed and said "I get it, sit down and have a drink and I'll explain," Damon was furious, he sat down and drank his drink, after that Bran's explanation was again quite believable, it would only be good for Mimi.

Adam saw the whole thing or Bran still had the vampire drink, luckily Dresden had developed an antidote to it, which would prevent the vampire drink from ever working the way it should. Adam went into the room where the now more relaxed Damon and Bran were talking.

Adam said nothing as he went and quickly took hold of Damon and stuck the syringe into his neck and pressed the plunger, it would work quickly and then Bran would see what would happen when he pissed Damon off. It took 10 minutes for Damon to stiffen and raise his eyes to Bran in a show of anger.

He said quietly and dangerously "I have promised, Bran, that whoever is found in possession of the vampire potion will die. Promised. Are you prepared to die for your little manipulation?" Bran swallowed and said "When it was only to help you see the greater good, the fact that these get samples of Mimi keeps them busy and they then don't take so many other prisoners, Damon, look surely one can be sacrificed if hundreds are saved. "

Adam said quietly, "Now Damon, the vampire potion will never affect you like that again, it just increases the need for other activities." Damon asked "So where to " Adam grunted and said, "Fuck, from now on vampire potion will fuck you." Damon smiled, it would be a good change of pace. He got up and headed for Mimi's cabin, soon it would be morning and he would get to take care of Mimi and see what the fuck had been done to her.

I woke up exhausted again, but I had my secret weapon. This special spumante. I didn't have to take it after a glass or two first thing in the morning to get my energy up and that pain in my head and nausea, light sensitivity nothing would bother me, I should probably re-bandage the wounds but I wonder if I had the supplies.

I had just sat up when Damon came to my door and opened it. Oops. Well, if he doesn't notice the mess in my cabin. Damon said curtly. " Come on, you're moving into my cabin for the rest of the time. " I wondered "What on earth for? Damon looked at me for a moment and said. "There are people from the medical department on this ship. And they've been testing you for 3 weeks now. Taking an enzyme or doing Lord knows what. Adam over there is carrying a mimosa to my cabin in advance. And I'm taking you now. As you can see, your wolf is very sick, and lack an enzyme. Colin said this last time I told you how the Mimosa is separate from you. Now the Mimosa needs those enzymes. She needs them very badly. And the fact that they're being robbed from you, they're actually being robbed from the mimosa. And that can be fatal for the mimosa. Now the mimosa is protected. Samuel will see if he can find any of those enzymes on the whole ship. I wonder if he can find the headquarters of the drug company. But now, miss. You're getting dental treatment. You're so full of different compounds and medicines and metals and those metals I don't understand. Because they didn't put the metals in you, I heard them wondering about it too. Where did you get them? And don't take that bottle of wine, you don't drink it. Do you understand? Give it to me. Oh. This bottle smells very special. There's something metal in here. You have poisoned yourself with this wine. At least partially. Come on."

Damon dragged me to his cabin and made me sit on the bed. I was hurt, I was distressed, because I needed my wine. Without my wine, I have to suffer these symptoms and these symptoms are no fun. I need to get out of here and run away. How could he have read my mind, which he probably did because he's a telepath?

He took some barbed handcuffs from somewhere and tied me to the bed. Damon said." Mimi. Now believe. You stay there. Now I will take a blood tube from you and then I will see what my teeth want to give you or do to you, you will probably get dental work. And we may be 2 weeks that way. I don't know yet baby, but you're not okay and now is not the time to run away. "

Adam came into the room and said "Are you coming to see some mimosa? I think Mimosa needs your teeth on her neck more than Mimi does. So Mimi can get some of those bags you've already done." Damon sighed and left. Adam sat down next to me on the bed and said, "Yes, you can. You'll find them all." Adam sat up and asked, " Has there been anything weird, like anyone you spend time with or anything?"

I told Adam about the girl and Adam's face darkened. He said " That girl, the troublemaker. Her mother was one of Damon's, well girlfriends, and I think Damon killed her at the fountain, I know this because the girl's father is one of the alphas and talked about the incident. She's trying to avenge her mother's death by killing you. Fine I'll have to talk to Damon about this too, but you get a cannula in your vein and some of those bags Damon made dripping, see if they help a little. Bran is an idiot, a complete idiot. "

Adam didn't give me a choice as he deftly cannulated me and hung Damon's bags to drip, yes I saw the black stripes on them and knew what that meant either a very calm state or total unconsciousness, I thought as I saw the thin thin black stripes dripping and had trouble staying awake that it must be about sleepytime.

Damon had been in the teeth for a week, Samuel had broken up the whole ship and had seen pretty soon when the helicopter had come to rescue the sark and the medics. And took the enzymes with them, the Mimi had the enzymes to give to the Mimosa and they got the Mimosa back to a more stable state, but Damon himself knew how close it had been. Very close. The cruise was a week away and Damon left next to take care of his father and daughter. He made examples of them.

On the upper deck of the ship was nailed one alpha and his daughter both dead, their hearts torn from their chests. And there was a banner, "If anyone is going to come to avenge their fate, you can be sure that the same will happen to you. Damon Salvatore." the message got through.

Adam had dropped all the bags into Mimi in five days and Mimi was feeling only a little better but not enough, she was nauseous, not eating, sleeping with no meds on, she was cold, Adam was doing what he could, giving fluids, and nutrition intravenously but Damon was first treating Mimosa and then treating whoever did this to Mimi.

Samuel knew that Mimi needed incubator care, heavy feeding, and blood tests. By the time the ship stopped in port, Damon had disappeared somewhere. So Samuel and Adam and Bran went to Chicago and Samuel put Mimi in an incubator, a strong feeding, and covered it up so Mimi would have a good dark hiding place to sleep. He even had some sedatives put in so Mimi could get some rest.

The blood tests showed several more metals, the worst being beryllium, which Samuel had come across a few times in his career and none of them had survived. He wasn't at all sure what else he could do for Mimi. While in other werewolves beryllium caused rage, not in Mimi, it seemed to shut down Mimi's entire body and Samuel fought every day against its effects, and he felt he might even lose this battle.