Brave (Damon Salvatore x OC)

Consequences

Elena walks up the stairs towards Ric's apartment carrying breakfast for him. She knocks on his door and Damon answers it.

"Morning sunshine." He leans on the door frame. 

"Hey, how's Alaric?" She asks and moves to enter the apartment but Damon closes the door behind him.

"Indecent, but fine." He tells her.

"So then, does that mean there were no issues last night?" She asks.

"Nope. Slept like a baby, woke up Alaric." Damon shares.

"Then why do I feel like you're hiding something from me?" Elena asks.

"Well, maybe because you're being all paranoid and control freaky." He tries to look in the bag. "What'd you bring?" Damon takes the bag from her and sniffs it. "Ooo, chocolate muffins. Did Ember bake them? You know what they say. The way to a psycho killer's heart is through his stomach."

Elena snatches the bag back from him. "Yes Em baked them and they're not for you."

Damon rolls his eyes. "Fine. But the fact is, Ric's gonna have to miss Elena time today. You know lockdown and all." He insists.

Elena reluctantly hands Damon back the bag of muffins. "Just take it and give it to him and tell him that I miss him, okay?"

"With pleasure." Damon opens the door.

"Please..." Damon starts to shut the door on her.

"Have a great day, thanks for coming by."

"Dam..."

Damon closes the door and walks over towards Ric and Stefan who are standing by a saw with the Wickery Bridge sign. Damon listens to Elena leaving. "Walking down the stairs, opening the front door, andddddd. She's gone."

Alaric turns the saw on and lowers the blade and begins to cut through the sign.

Damon, Alaric, and Stefan begin creating stakes from the sign and Stefan looks at the point on one of them. "This needs to have a sharper point." He hands the stake back to Damon.

Damon inspects the pointy end and nods. "I got it."

"We finally have our own stakes to kill an Original. I'm not gonna miss because you can't whittle." Stefan stares at him.

"I said I got it. Stop micromanaging." Damon scowls and sharpens the point of the stake more.

Alaric stands up and puts on his jacket. "Looks like you guys have got this under control. I'm gonna call the Sheriff."

Damon and Stefan look at him in confusion.

"I want to turn myself in." Ric tells them.

"No you don't." Damon disagrees.

"I have a homicidal alter ego. Unlike some people in this room, I would like to take responsibility for the people I've killed." Ric snaps back.

"If you wanted to turn yourself in, you wouldn't be saying it out loud. Just saying." Damon shrugs.

"Hey, listen, out of all the people you cannot psychoanalyze me. I killed Caroline's father. I nearly killed Meredith. I broke Ember's arm! Everything's changed." Ric starts to pace.

"Look, you're not turning yourself in. The herbs are working, Ember has more then enough to keep you in check and we have Originals to kill." Stefan tells him and Ric looks surprised to see Stefan saying it. He looks at Damon in confusion.

"His morals get very questionable when he has revenge on the brain." Damon explains.

"Klaus needs to die. We finally have the chance to kill him. So, you are not turning yourself in." Stefan reiterates.