Tenebrae < Niklaus Mikaelson X OC

Loss

They lost, the whole thing had gone wrong. And Elena had lost her aunt, and now her biological father too. Albeit she woke human, it didn't much lessen the sting of the failure. Stood in all black, staring at a pair of headstones and flowers. Luna tried to ignore the memories it brought up. She pushed them back down as soon as they came up, this wasn't about her or her feelings.

Being so new to the group it felt rather awkward to be there while the young siblings sobbed over their fallen family. So she'd walked a little further away to give them some privacy as they mourned. Her mind was racing, how could elijah betray them, he promised he would not fail them and yet here they stood with the same threat as yesterday, but now the threat was a hybrid that could easily kill all those she cared about. He was bad enough as a vampire, not he had werewolf toxin added to the mix

She felt guilty that part of her understood Elijah, the whole reason he was fighting with them is because of the family Niklaus stole from him. So at the promise of getting them back, one could see why he took the offer up. But it didn't stop the burning anger she felt for him right now "what's got you all twisted" oddly she didn't mind his presence in this moment, she turned her head to face Damon "just... this, we failed" as she looked at him she noticed something, he didn't look right. There was something off "yea, well looks like the battle isn't nearly over. He'll come for us at somepoint, after all. We did try to kill him" she watched his movements, one arm glued to his side. He was favouring his other one, the slight clamminess to his skin, and his skin paler "what's wrong with you?" She asked outright. But he was only confused as to what she meant "you mean other than losing to klaus?" She moved her body to stand fully infront of him, he instinctively reached up and held his forearm

She saw his movements and grasped his hand, he didn't seem to have the strength to pull away "what are you.." he stopped talking as she batted his other hand away and lifted his sleeve. Her eyes blew wide and mouth hung open and she stared at the very distinctive bite mark on his arm "what happened ?!" She whisper yelled but this still got the attention of Stefan who came over just in time to see the bite before Damon pulled his sleeve down "I didn't want to say anything the day Elena buried yet another set of parents okay!" He whisper yelled back at her, not realising his brother was staring at him in shock

But she did , Damon followed her gaze which landed on a watery eyed Stefan "you weren't gonna tell me?" He walked closer, the three of them further away from the rest of the group "I was... just not yet" he glared back at Luna "we'll find a cure, there has got to be something, a witchy work around or some plant okay?" Luna put forward, Stefan blew out a breath nodding agreeing they would find something "right now she needs you. And at some-point you need to tell Elena, and tell her me and Stefan have gone to look for Elijah or something... we'll find a cure" Stefan thanked her with a small smile for her taking charge, right now his mind was spiralling at the thought of loosing his brother, of losing another person he cared for

They had gone back to the Salvatore house, they'd gone to get changed before Luna came down with every grimoire she owned and laid them out on the table. For hours on end, neither knew exactly how long, they'd been scanning and reading every page, aswell as books she'd gotten when researching a way to save Elena, but they were coming up empty "Okay, well Tyler wouldn't know because he's new, his uncle and father are dead, that lady werewolf is dead so... there's only one person that would know... and he's like a thousand years old" her voice was quiet as she pointed it out to Stefan that there is one person that had to know

"Luna no. No we can't ask Klaus? He'll kill us as soon as we walk through the door" he pushed back "he won't okay, I can Atleast hold him off and you can run us out of there if needed. But this is all we have okay and Damon is gonna run out of time soon okay" Stefan groaned, he couldn't believe it had come to this, they had heard Damon come home, they were aware that Elena knew what was going on and they had spent the whole day researching and finding nothing, and he wasn't getting any better

"I'm gonna go see him, let him know that we're close okay" she decided to give Stefan a moment, she climbed the stairs and saw Elena with him, cleaning the wound as best she could "Elena, could I talk to Damon" Luna's voice rang softly through the room "of course, I'll uh, go find Stefan" Elena shared a small empathetic smile with the witch as she left. Luna walked towards the bed and sat on its edge surveying him

He'd declined rapidly, his skin a blue hue, sweat dripping from his skin, small shaking all over "come to confess your love for me" he joked, letting out a small cough mixed with a smirk "mhm, oh Damon how will I go on" she feigned heartbreak making him let out a weak laugh "you look like shit" she made fun as he settled down "yea we'll, death will do that to you" she rolled her eyes at him "your not going to die, Stefan and I think we found something, just need to go get it" she took his hand in hers "then why you say talking to me, go get it" he watched as her eyes avoided his

He wasn't stupid, but the warmth of her hand felt rather nice in his right now "either your lying or this cure means trouble" she sighed, not knowing what to say "I'll keep your brother safe, you know I will" he found he didn't like it that she immediately thought he only meant his brother. They never really got along. But somehow, in his own way, he did care about her "you know, it's been 50 some odd years since we met, yea we bicker, and I wanna tear your head off sometimes... but, ya think you can stay safe too?" His thumb traced over her hand as he spoke making her look back at him with a small smile on her face

They didn't always argue, when they first met they got along like a house on fire, a lot of drunken nights and flirty behaviour. But they drifted when he and Stefan did, and somewhere along the line they started taking out their frustrations on each other, both knowing each others past knew they could handle it. But there were moments, moments like these where the anger dissipated and all that was left was two people who had lost alot in their lives

"I'm gonna fix this Damon, your not gonna die" she squeezed his hand "that's not an answer is it... will you come back safe" she was many things, but she wasn't a liar, and who could lie to a dying man "I'll try" he squeezed her hand back "whatever it is, I'm
Already dead, don't die for me" she rolled her eyes again "big headed of you to think I like you enough to die for you" he tried to laugh but winced instead. She couldn't do much, but she could ease his pain "Asinta Mulaf Hinto, Sho Bala" she held onto his hand as he chanted, his muscles relaxing a lot more as he laid comfortably in his bed "thank you" it was rare for those words to slip from his tongue, he must've been in a lot of pain "hold on Damon, we'll be back soon" he smiled weakly at her as she laid his hand down and headed back downstairs.

Stefan was hugging Elena as she came down "we'll be back soon" she heard him say as she walked to the front door "keep an eye on him, if anything happens call us" Luna waved goodbye to Elena who was going to head back up to Damon

"Did you not want to talk to him?" She asked Stefan as they walked outside "no, that would sound like goodbye. And he's not going to die" she swore the stubbornness of the Salvatore would get them killed one day "well let's go make a deal with the devil" she smirked, Stefan holding onto her as he vamp sped to Alarics place where klaus had taken up residence

Here's to hoping he didn't kill them on the spot