Stiles Stilinski-Gilbert

Chapter 17

"I can't believe that just because I was ill and skipped that stupid pageant, I missed all the drama." Stiles bemoans, still slightly stuffy from the head cold he had come down with.

"I know and you missed me in a suit saving the day for your poor sister." Damon adds on.

"Now that you mention it, maybe I didn't miss that much after all." Stiles teases.

The two men are watching warily as Elena tries to get a highly Vervained up Stefan to communicate with her.

"It's so hard to see him like this." Elena sulks as she steps back towards the cell door.

As it turns out Stefan had been having more trouble with his blood lust than he let on and ended up becoming a bit of a blood junky. At the Miss Mystic Falls competition, he ended up being called out by Damon, scolded by Elena and then subsequently attacked a pageant girl.

"You're the one who locked him up." Damon points out.

"Your helped." Elena retorts.

"How is this supposed to help Stefan again?" Stiles asks.

"We are starving the blood out of him and then feeding him only animal blood while he is in a controlled environment. I have no idea how it's supposed to help but it's what Lexi always did so..." Damon answers before turning to Elena, "I couldn't have him running around chewing on people. while the town was looking for vampires, now, could I?"

"It had nothing to do with you actually caring about him?" Elena inquires smugly.

"Your thing, not mine." Damon denies.

Damon starts to walk up the stairs and Elena and Stiles follow after him, making sure to close and lock the cellar door behind them.

Damon thumps down onto the sofa in the living room before taking out a round metallic object from his pocket. Stiles sits down next to Damon and tires to look at the details of the device in Damon's hands. It was random little cog wheels and some intricate detailing but nothing that screams this is how I work.

"Did you ever figure out what that is?" Elena asks.

"Nope. Whatever it is, it doesn't work." Damon huffs.

"Pearl didn't say anything else about it?" Elena queries.

Damon slaps Stiles hand away from the device when he tries to reach out to touch it.

"She thought she was stealing his vampire compass, but that was a pocket watch. That Johnathan Gilbert was a crazy scientist. Have you spoken to your uncle lately?" Damon changes the subject.

"No, she's been avoiding him, and he's been avoiding me." Stiles tells Damon.

"Why do you two hate each other so much?" Damon asks.

"I'm not a real Gilbert...or some shit like that. I've always thought that there was more to it than that, but I've never gotten anything out of him. I just react back to his negativity." Stiles informs.

"Hmm." Damon hums before turning to Elena, "Will you be here again tonight?"

Elena has been sleeping at the Salvatore's for the past 4 days much to Jenna's worry. Btu Jenna has been so focused on Stiles being sick that she hasn't spoken to Elena about her not sleeping in her own bed.

"Is that a problem?" Elena inquires.

"Yes. You're a complete nuisance." Damon answers straight faced.

Elena chuckles, "See you later."

"Have fun at school, bring me back my make up work please!" Stiles calls out behind Elena.