desiderium ad amissam (longing for the lost one ft . TVD)

Chapter 4 - Ambushed

In the summer afternoon of glaring heat, the room of the motel was awfully silent. Enzo cuddled with unconscious Damon on the sofa. He would glare at stefan every now and then, try to wake his lover, whose face rested on his chest. Damon's long eyelashes quivered slightly before, he started to open his eyes, he looked dazedly at the side, inhaled the familiar scent of his lover, and he understood what had happened. Enzo feeling Damon awake, slightly tilted his head backward. Damon raised his head to look at the concerned eyes of his lover, that looked 3 parts relived and one part concerned.

"Hey there, did you have a good nap? Scared me to death for a second there" Enzo said with hint of playfulness in his voice.

"yep" Damon replied and quickly apologized "sorry I made you worry"

"Don't apologize for something that's not your fault...so...what happened?" Enzo asked Damon in most gentlest tone Stefan had heard up until this moment. Stefan had really hard time accepting that his brother doesn't remember him and is in love with man?! He just couldn't wrap his head around the latter part, as far as Stefan knew, Damon had always been a lady's man. It didn't bother him that he swung the other way, but it still surprised him.

"I don't know, it felt like as if something was stopping me from seeing his memories" Damon exclaimed, as his eyebrows knit in confusion.

"Do you think..." Enzo hesitated before but then the image of Damon in pain flashed in his mind and he continued "do you she did this so we couldn't remember...?"

Damon's head snapped at him, hearing enzo ask this question, it was so fast, Stefan thought his brother would have a whiplash. Damon's eyes widened but he pursued his lips, as he looked at Enzo, it's not that he hadn't thought about it, but that person had accommodated them, and helped them get away from the crazy doctors and scientists in the circle. So he didn't want to believe that person would have done it. He shook his head firmly "No, no, Enzo, we shouldn't be doubting her" he firmly dismissed the idea.

Enzo couldn't help but sigh at the amount of trust Damon had in that person, it scared him but he also knows that Damon also suspects them, but hasn't been presented with any solid proof. So they could only continue to be their lapdogs for now. For some reason they stayed by their side in the belief that one day they could be able fully recover their identity and memories.

The next moment, there was a knock on the door, both vampires who had been immersed in their thoughts, woke up in instant and expanded their senses to listen outside the door. There seem to be one heartbeat just outside the door, it was beating fast, they could smell unique scent, that men have and a cologne and...there was a smell of some kind of herb. Both Enzo and Damon were on high alert. Enzo gestured Damon to go open the door while silently holding Stefan in place. His eyes warning him to shut his trap and not make sound. Damon opened the door and found a brown haired man in service uniform. He raised an eyebrow while being high alert, his pupils dilated and constricted like a cat's, as he compelled the person in front of him.

"Tell your staff personnel that we don't need any services, by the way, are you really a staff?"

The man stiffly nodded but suddenly pushed Damon inside the room, before throwing a smoke bomb of sorts and then firmly closed the door and sighed when a brunette with curly hair tapped his shoulder gave him reassuring smile.

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Bonnie used a spell so door was firmly in place. Alaric sighed. Just now he had thrown a smoke bomb with concentrated vervain. He had made a split second decision when he saw really good looking guy tried to compel him. He sighed in his heart thinking 'why are all vampires so good looking, that face, those eyes...it's a pity they're not on our side'

Bonnie looked at Alaric as he sighed with funny look.

"Alaric, are you okay?"

Alaric glanced at bonnie and nodded.

"Yes"

Bonnie then felt the struggling at the door stopped, gestured Alaric to open the door. Alaric cautiously opened the door, smoke filled the entire room, it seemed they had tried to open the windows but were knocked out from the concentrated vervain. Seeing two unconscious vamps on the floor, Alaric again sighed in his heart.

'why the hell are they so good looking'

Even bonnie was stunned by their appearance. She at first thought Stefan was good-looking, then they met Katherine (though she looked like Elena, there was this air of elegance and confidence that only a vampire can have), then Elijah and finally Klaus. She thought maybe all vampires are simply good-looking. But the raventte on the floor was on whole other level.

Just then Caroline, Matt had appeared at the door. They had been found by Alaric, Bonnie and few deputies in the van downstairs. They immediately woke them up and gave the duo the blood bags. Seeing as Tyler didn't come, bonnie assumed that he was still knocked out cold.

"hey guys, you good?"

"as good as we can be" Caroline bitterly remarked and glared at the two men who were now unconscious on the sofa.

"yes, we're good. How'd you find us?" Matt good-naturedly smiled at bonnie, his voice conveying his gratitude as he inquired.

"I did a locator spell" bonnie explained and the two immediately looked a little worried, seeing their worried faces she quickly reassured "I am fine, no nosebleed this time, looks I am getting better using magic"

Caroline's face lit up hearing this and she playfully said "looks like you'll be witchy goddess in no time"

Alaric looked at the three students and shook his head before he coughed getting the three conscious people's attention.

"I got the keys of the van, looks like we're taking this two with us"

As Alaric said this, the three looked at him as if he was insane.

"What?"

"are we.."

"yes"

"but"

Before the discussion got any further, bonnie interrupted and said "we should take them with us, I just think we should"

Alaric looked at bonnie weirdly and heard Caroline say "its your witchy juju huh okay then"

Caroline and Matt helped them carry both vampires in the van with Tyler and took the driver's seat and shotgun respectively.

While Alaric and bonnie secured Stefan on the back seat of the car they drove there, after they finished talking with the deputies Liz sent with them.

They all set off to Mystic falls