Surprising Lover (TVDxOC) (Complete)

Rescue Me

Grace and Enzo are sitting across from one another in a diner. Grace with a newspaper, and Enzo doing nothing but trying to get her attention. Her phone starts buzzing on the table, but before she can pick it up, Enzo snatches it from her.
"(answering the phone)Atlanta assassination squad. How may we be of service?"
"I take it you haven't located the doppelgänger yet?"
"You told us to find a nameless paramedic at the scene of a car accident in a city of freeways, fried green tomatoes and terrible drivers. It's not exactly as easy as it sounds."
"Which is why I'm calling.. the doppelgänger's name is Tom Avery. And I just saw him deliver a patient to Atlanta Metropolitan Hospital."
"She saw him?"
Grace grows angry and jerks the phone from Enzo's hand.
"(to Enzo) She did the vision thing again? (to Sloan) We had a deal. I find Stefan's last living doppelgänger"
"(interrupting her) Tom."
"Tom. I-I (lowering her voice) take care of Tom and in return, you stop using Stefan to psychically doppel-bomb him. Because every time you link the two, you are frying Stefan's brain."
"I don't give a damn about his brain. It's his blood that matters."
"And until Stefan and Elena are the last two doppelgängers of their lines on Earth, their blood is useless to me. So you better believe I'll give Stefan a back alley lobotomy if you fail to kill Tom Avery."
"Well, I don't fail at things. So do it again and I'll kill you too."
Grace hangs up the phone and flings it across the booth.
"(looking amused) I'll kill you too? You're like a perky, blonde angel of death. Almost had me convinced."

Grace signs in at the front desk.
"So, the receptionist doesn't know Tom personally, but I compelled him to call someone who does."
Enzo and Grace now sit and wait for someone to come speak with them. Enzo just stares at her until Grace pulls out a magazine and starts reading it.
"Okay. I give up. I can't tell if you're avoiding the mission, or me."
"Well why can't it be both?"
"Because I've earned some company, after hand delivering the antidote that kept Damon and Elena from consuming each other.. Literally."
"Yeah, well that doesn't mean I trust you. I still don't understand why you're even here."
"Damon's trying to be a good boy these days, which means I'm in need of a new murder buddy."
Grace side-eyes him.
"I'm joking! A joke.. british humor.."
Grace is clearly not interested in speaking with him any further. So Enzo picks up his own magazine and starts reading from it.
"Ahh. Modern women. All bosom, no mystery. Present company excluded."
"Dear God. Please don't tell me that I am the real reason you're here."
"Why not? From what Damon tells me, I am your type. Well-traveled, charming accent, dodgy morals..."
"Mhmm. Arrogant, tactless, completely unable to take a hint."
"Precisely. Well, to be honest, you remind me of someone I once knew. She worked for the Augustines."
"You mean, she tortured you? I can definitely relate to that."
"Maggie was only there to observe my behavior in captivity. I quite liked her, actually."
"And let me guess, she made you want to be a better man."
"Not at all. She just reminded me that I was good all along."
Grace seems surprised by his answer, but before she can retort, a doctor comes to talk to them.
"You were asking about Tom Avery?"
"Yes. We need to see him as soon as possible. It's a matter of life or death."
"I wish I could help. Tom Avery was a pain in my ass, but he was also the best paramedic I ever met."
"What do you mean, "was"?"
"He disappeared four months ago. No one knows where he is."

Grace continues to keep Stefan calm as the link persists
"Can you hear me? Just say something, please!"
"Grace, I'm here."
"(obviously relieved) Okay."
"6643 Peachtree Drive. There was, uh, a redheaded woman. Her name was Hazel."
"Thank you. I won't let you down."
"Grace, he's a good person. Don't do it."
"Clock's ticking."

Grace and Enzo apprach an old, beaten down house from the address Stefan gave them.
"It's a miracle we found the place. Every other street in this blasted city is Peachtree."
"These look old. Like, four months old."
Enzo tugs on the door handle, hoping that it might be unlocked, but he's unsucessful
"Seventy years in a cage.. You'd think I'd learn to pick a lock by now."
He places his hand over the nob and crushes it, seeing streaks of blood running through the house's main hall.
"Red hair.. that's her. She's a witch."
Grace tries to enter the building, but a protection spell prevents her from doing so.
"And she must own the house."
"Not for long."
Enzo throws the door knob as hard as he can at the woman, striking her in the head and killing her.
"Why did you do that? She was our only lead!"
"Exactly. And I am a murderous vampire. Surprise!"