Prank Night Fall Out

5. Haunted

Pairing: Stefan/Damon (M/M) hand/ belt

Jenna-Alaric/John (FM/M) hand, spoon, brush

Chapter Text

Prompt from elenalovly

"Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what."

― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

Salvatore Boarding House

"Ric, hey, it's me, Stefan," Stefan whispered anxiously into his cell phone. "Something is wrong with Damon. He's...I don't even know how to say this, but he's sick."

On the other end of the phone line was pacing down the hallway outside of the guest room at the Gilbert residence.

"Stefan, this is really odd, but I'm at Jenna's. You know, Uncle John? Yeah, well, he's sick, too. It started as a cold, but he need is looking terrible. I thought vamps didn't get sick," Alaric added.

Stefan paused, "Ric, we don't. I haven't been sick in 160 some years. It just does not happen. I am really worried..."

"Stefan, let me call Meredith Fell. I know Damon still supplies her with his blood from time to time. She's been working at a clinic on the edge of town for the less fortunate. I'll call you back," Alaric said hastily.

"Ric," Stefan whispered, "can you try to keep this from, Elena? She does not need to see Damon like this."

"Sure, she's actually with John now," Alaric said glancing back towards the guest room. Call ya back," Alaric said clicking off.

Salvatore Boarding House

"Stef, I'm not going to a doctor. I told you that," Damon groaned. He sat up slowly.

Stefan went over and felt his forehead again. Damon batted his hand away.

"I'm not a baby, Stefan. Leave me alone," Damon whined.

"Remember when Mother thought I had scarlet fever? I made such a fuss when the physician came that she put me over her knee and spanked me right there," Stefan recalled.

"Yeah, that little chubby butt was all red and then they figured out that you were just sick from pigging out on cherries you snuck out of the larder. Didn't you get a second spanking that night for that?" Damon said with effort and a slight smirk.

"Yeah, and then I got sent to bed with no supper! But that's not the point," Stefan said firmly.

"What is your point? Before I die from the painfulness of this conversation," Damon grunted.

"The point is that if you don't start letting me take care of you, then I am going to put you over my sick and paddle you. Now, lie back down and let me cover you up," Stefan said firmly.

"I'm stronger than you!" Damon argued letting Stefan push him gently back on the couch and lift a cup of blood to his mouth.

"Normally, that is true. But in your weakened state, you won't be able to stop me. Now, relax and behave. Ric is checking out a clinic where Dr. Fell works. Damon, she needs to check you out," Stefan said tucking the blankets in around Damon. "Shut your eyes."

For once in his life, Damon listened and was asleep a moment later. For some reason, this scared Stefan even more than anything else.

Gilbert Residence

"Thanks, Meredith. Yeah, we will have them over there right away....Okay, see ya soon. Thanks," Ric said into the phone.

Jenna exhaled the breath she was holding, "She will see them?"