As I Lay Dying - 2

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Alaric knocked on the door to warn he was here and entered, I stepped aside to let him get a look of Damon. 

"That looks bad" 

Damon speaks but his voice is strained. "It feels worse. My subconscious is haunting me" Damon says and turns to the door.

"Please tell me you have something for that." Alaric puts a glass of scotch and Damon's ring on the door window sill.

"Double shot." He pours Damon more scotch.

"Give me some" I mumble to him. Despite not wanting to he gives me anyway and I drink it all down in one gulp.

  "That's good."  Damon says as gets up and takes his ring 

"Oh good." Damon breaths out. He takes the glass. "So my brother sent you for suicide watch as well?" Damon questions.

  "He's just trying to help." I say, defending Stefan,

  "He's doing what he always does, trying to right the wrongs of the past."

Damon screams and bends forward in pain and I tense. 

"You should want me dead. I'm the reason Jenna got killed." Damon says.

"I don't blame you for Jenna." Alaric says as he takes a drink from the bottle.
Damon looks up at him.

He's sweating so much, his forehead is actually glistening.

"Oh, sure you do. Let's not forget I turned your wife into a vampire. You must really hate me for that one."

Alright I see what he's doing.

Alaric sighs. "Okay, give me your glass. Neither one of us is drunk enough for this conversation..." Damon gets closer and reaches forward, through the slot as he grabs a hold of my neck.

I let out a Yelp at the pain as he squeezed 

"Kill me. Please." Damon begs with wide eyes. 

"Screw you." I manage to get out before Alaric injects vervain into Damon with a dart.

He loses his grip and collapses to the ground and I gasp for breath. 
"No. Elena?" Damon mumbles.  "Elena's not here, Damon."

"I need blood. I need blood." Damon tells us. Alaric goes to the fridge and I stay with Damon, looking at him through the slot. God, he looks so bad, I can't stand to see him like this. 

"Ariel!" Yells Alaric. I turn and gasp when Liz and her deputy have their guns trained on me 

"Woah, you guys need to leave!" I warn, walking slowly to the cellar door. 

"Stand down Ariel," Liz warns. The door that leads to the storage space is closed which means Alaric can't get in.

The deputy comes at me and I kick at him, sending him back, the other deputy comes from behind me, grabbing me by my arms. 

"Ugh!" I squirm against his grip and used him to support myself when I extended both feet at the other deputy and kicked at him harder against the before.

I managed to get an arm free and used my elbow to well elbow the guy in the face.

When he lets go and reaches up to his face, I swing my foot towards deputy 2 and roundhouse kick him across the face, sending him collapsing, and deputy 1 as well since deputy 2 crashed into number 1.

I puffed out a breath, my hair moving away from my face as I looked at both men.

I cannot believe, I just did that!

I turn around and gasp when Sheriff Forbes uses a tranquilizer dart, injecting it in my neck. 

Suddenly I'm feeling nostalgic. 

The deputies got up and caught me as I fell "Let me go!" I scream as I squirm against him, I start feeling the tranquilizers effects and my muscles start to feel like slop. 

"It's just a small sedative. The effects will wear off shortly" Liz mutters.

 "Alaric!" I scream as loud as I can as Liz peers in through the slot. "You can't go in there!" I warn her breathing heavily and starting to feel drowsy.

 "Why do you care?" Liz asks as she turns to me. "He's my friend!"

 "He's a vampire!" Liz argues back.

"And he's your friend!"

Keep going, stall, give Ric some time to pry the door open.

"He killed you sister!" That pretty much makes me shut up.

 "Sheriff Forbes you can't go in there. He's sick" I plead against the deputy. Liz trains her gun to the door,

"Let him try" Liz opens the door and is almost immediately thrown against the wall. Damon rushes out of here, blowing the door that leads out of the basement open in his wake. 

Liz came out of the cellar and pointed with her thumb to the cellar. The deputies understood the message and threw me in.

"No!" I yell as I land on the ground. I stumble to the door and struggle against the deputy who tries to push the cellar door close. 

"Let me out!" I yell when Liz and him manage to get the door close, falling on the ground.

 "Alaric!"

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