Lorelai's Diaries / The Vampire Diaries

Chapter 21: The Bite

"Wake up, love." I hear a British man's voice say. I try to move with my eyes struggling to open. I can't move much, My wrists are chained above my head. I open my eyes to see a man leaning over me. He looks a lot like dream Klaus, but with short hair... oh, my god. It is him.

"Ah, you're awake." He says. "Klaus." I mutter. "Good guess, sweetheart." He stands up and walks around the room. I look around the room and see Elena, no. Katherine. She's sitting at the dining table. We're in Alaric's apartment. "Why am I here?" I ask. I thought he only needed a vampire, werewolf and a doppelganger? "I can't have a witch running around trying to ruin my plans, now can I?" He says.

I'll admit it. That accent is doing something for me.

"I'm surprised Katerina's screams didn't wake you." Klaus continues. "So, I guess I'm stuck here till my friend is sacrificed all for your own gain, then?" I ask tiredly. "I'll see you lovely ladies later. You keep an eye on her, Katerina." Klaus gets up and leaves the apartment. "So... how's that running for five-hundred years been treating ya?" I jokingly ask Katherine. She just gives me a dirty look.

"Where's Maddox? He should be back by now." Klaus storms in and says when he returns to the apartment hours later. "I don't know." Katherine says softly. I can see him opening up a laptop. "What're you doing?" Katherine asks. He just ignores her. "Where's Elena?" She asks again. "I sent her off with Greta." He tells her. I can hear a woman groaning coming from his laptop... a weird time for that... "It's almost time." He says, pleased. The door abruptly swings open. "I wasn't aware you'd been invited in." Klaus says.

Damon stands behind him. He looks at me worried, and confused. But looks back at the back of Klaus' head. "I've come here to tell you that you have to postpone the ritual." He tells Klaus. Katherine is standing up watching and waiting for things to escalate no doubt. "Didn't we already have this conversation?" Klaus asks with a smirk. "Yeah, but that was before I rescued your werewolf, vampire and killed your witch." Damon states. Klaus stands up, jaw clenched, "Excuse me?"
"And you can kill me for it. I don't care. It was all me." Damon says. "Damon." I warn. Klaus will kill him. "Katerina, give us a moment. Take the witch with you." Klaus smirks. Katherine comes over and unlocks a cuff, freeing me so she can drag me with her. She takes me to another room.

Katherine brings me back out after I hear Klaus call for us. Damon is lying unconscious on the floor. "You chain her back up. I'll see you later, a changed man." He smirks at her. Klaus leaves the apartment again. "Do not chain me again." I tell her with a raised brow. I know she's on vervain so she doesn't have to chain me up technically. "Fine." She drops the cuffs and vamps around for a minute. She returns with a bag of blood in front of Damon's mouth.

Lightly slapping him she says,  "Hey. Damon. Hey... Damon." I sit on the other side of him. He moves his head a little. "What the hell happened?" He asks. "He's gone. He went to do the ritual." I tell him. "I'm sorry I had too. He would've known that I was on vervain if I didn't do it." Katherine says. "Do what?" Damon asks, as I help him up still out of it. "Klaus. He made me call her to lure her out. He needed another vampire." She says. "Who did you call?" He asks quietly. She doesn't answer. "Who did you call, Katherine?" I demand loudly. "Isobel." I look at her confused. "What?" I ask in disbelief. "He should've used me. Why didn't he use me?" we're all standing now."Don't say that." I say to him. "He couldn't. Damon, he said you were as good as dead." Katherine says. She must've heard him from the other room with her fancy vamp hearing.

"What does that even mean?" He and I both ask. "What does it mean?" Katherine then grabs Damon's left arm. "What is this, Damon?" She lifts his sleeve to reveal a nasty ass wound on his inner elbow. "Oh, my god. What is that?" I ask concerned, grabbing his arm to examine it. "It's a werewolf bite." He says slowly. Katherine and I look at him concerned. "Wait. No, no, no. What? How- holy shit, you're dying." Katherine stands next to me as I look over Damon's arm. "So that's what a werewolf bite looks like." She says. "Yep." Damon looks down at his arm while I turn it trying to examine it. "It's not that bad." Katherine tells him. "It will be." He tells her.

"What the hell happened? How could you let this happen?" I ask bewildered. I can't lose him. This just can't be how he dies, this can't be how his story... our story ends. "You think I just held my arm out for the bitch to bite me?"
"No I just- so that's it. You're just gonna die?" I huff out. "Well that depends. Does Kitty-Kat know anything about a cure?" we look at her. Myself, with hope, yet she dulls the flame when she shakes her head. "Me, either." Damon states, seeming unfazed.

Damon walks over to a chair that has his jacket laying out it. "A hundred and forty-five years and... no last goodbye?" Katherine asks him. "You don't get a goodbye. Let's go, Lorelai." Damon turns to leave but Katherine vamps up to him. "Don't. Don't leave mad." She tells him. "Us ending up on good terms is not exactly on my bucket list, Katherine." He tries to walk away. I'm slowly making my way to the door. "Klaus made me call Isobel to lure her out. There was nothing that I could do. I didn't have a choice." Katherine stops him. "That's why I gave you the vervain. So you had a choice."
"It was her or me. I chose her."
"I helped you. You owed me. Now when Klaus dies, you're gonna walk out of here without a scratch, and Elena's mom dies. Somehow you're the only one that wins. How'd that happen?" Katherine takes a beat and says, "I didn't let love get in the way."
"Enjoy an eternity alone, Katherine." Damon puts his arm around my back and guides me out of the apartment.

I don't speak on the way out. I'm just trying to process it all. Elena's mom is gonna die, Elena may or may not die, and Damon... well he's slowly dying as we speak. "Where are we going?" I ask after not paying any attention after being on the road for a few. "Home." He tells me. I nod, then shamelessly stare at him as he drives.

We both head into the boarding house as we continue to not exchange a word. I stop abruptly at the entrance. "So that's it? You're not gonna try and scour the earth for some magical cure?" I'm pissed. He can't just give up like this. Damon stops at the bottom of the stairs in the living room, and turns to me. "I don't have the time to scour the earth Lorelai. I'll be dead in like a day at most, you know that." I just stare, not knowing what to say. "You're my only real friend Damon... you can't just leave me here with these idiots." I say quietly, with tears trying to escape my eyes. He takes in a deep breath and exhales it out. "You're my only real friend too." He walks away to the parlor. I can hear him talking to someone on the phone.

I call Caroline just because I wanna make sure she's alright. "Hey, Lori, everything okay?" She seems flustered. "Uh yeah, I just wanted to check in."
"Um, oh, yeah, everything's great. I gotta call you back though okay." She says super quick and just ends the call. Damn alright. That wasn't weird at all. I jump in my seat on the couch when I hear someone loudly knock on the door. Damon is still in the parlor, but he answers. "Heard ya."

They knock again.

I get ready to stand as he opens the door. "Great. I was just thinking about getting a bite to eat." Damon says when the door is opened. Then I hear the most annoying voice ever. "Elena hasn't returned any of my calls for days. I need to see her. What is she doing here?" John. He walks into the house "Because I want to be here." I tell him. "Well you're a day late and a daughter short, John. And, yes... because she wants to be here."
"What are you talking about?" John asks.

"Klaus has her." I say. "The sacrifice goes down tonight." Damon says walking to my spot on the couch. But stops short, coming face to face with John. "How could you let that happen? You were supposed to keep her safe. Wasn't that the sub total of your plan, to keep her safe?" I can feel the rage radiating off of John. "She is safe. I fed her my blood."
"You what?" Oooo, I feel like I'm watching a soap opera right now. "When Klaus kills Elena in the sacrifice she will come back to life. Granted as the thing you hate most in the world but no one really cares what you think." John goes to grab Damon as he tries to walk down to the couch. Damon throws John into the wall at vamp speed. "You do not wanna mess with me right now." He warns. "You ruined her life. You know that right?" John says pissed, but still trying to remain calm. "I know, John, I took her choice, destroyed her future. Trust me I get it. It actually gets worse." Damon says and finally gets to sit next to me. "How could it possibly get any worse?"