Vampire Diaries Imagines

Daggered Awakening - Jeremy Gilbert

She was his family. He daggered her. Why would he do that? Why would he feel like that was his only option? Because he couldn't bring himself to kill her? Her siblings couldn't even say what made him do it when they brought YN back to Mystic Falls. The YHC-haired girl had just had the dagger pulled from her chest before Kol and Rebekah passed her limp body over to the eldest Salvatore at the front door of the boarding house.

"Although this does not erase our title of enemies, we know she'll be safe here," Kol said reluctantly as he handed over his deveining younger sister to Damon.

"As her siblings, we can save her from many things and people, but we can't keep her safe from ourselves." Rebekah continued for her brother. "Especially Niklaus. His anger can most times control his actions, and he goes to drastic measures to get what he wants, as I'm sure you already know."

"Especially towards YNN which he later on regrets tremendously." The Mikaelson boy said. "As he does now."

Damon looked down at the ghostly pale girl that now lay in his arms. "So, he won't come barging in, trying to kidnap her again? He won't come looking for her?" He questioned the two siblings standing before him.

Rebekah shook her head. "Not at all. In fact, he's the one who sent us here with her instead of doing it himself. He didn't want her to wake up hating him like the many times before and attack him."

"He knew she had grown quite fond of you all and feels welcomed here." Her brother spoke. "That and it's less likely for YN to attack one of you than one of us. Having to calm her down when she's that mad for being daggered in the first place isn't fun. Trust me. I've had to handle her a handful of times myself. We both have actually." He stated and looked at Rebekah who nodded in agreement.

The Salvatore man nodded in understanding. "We'll be prepared for that if need be." He looked at the 2 that stood before him and said, "We'll help her. But only because it's YN and I actually like her. Not because you quite literally dropped her into my arms before asking for our help."

"Thank you," Rebekah replied.

After the Mikaelsons had left, Damon took the girl upstairs to Jeremy's room and laid her gently on his bed. "Special delivery, Little Gilbert."

"YNN?!" Jeremy exclaimed as he ran over from his desk. "Is she okay?"

"Does she look okay, Jer?" Damon asked as he gently brushed some hair out of the Mikaelson girl's face. "She's just had a dagger removed from her chest. Probably the furthest from being okay that she can be, aside from being dead. God knows how long she had been like that before they brought her here."

"When do you think she will wake up?"

"Not a clue." The oldest Salvatore said with a shrug. "But if the stories she told us of the other times this has happened in the past then it could take anywhere from hours to weeks maybe. Who knows? But just know, from what I've been told anyways, she might just wake up swinging, so be prepared for that." he warned.

Jeremy gave him a confused look before asking, "Why would she do that?"

"I suspect that she will be expecting Klaus, not one of us, and apparently she deems it okay to attack first and ask questions later," Damon confessed to the youngest Gilbert. "Can't say I blame her either." And with that, he walked out of the room.

Jeremy sat by YN's side for hours, wondering if there was anything he could possibly do to wake her up faster, but he came out empty-handed. He didn't want to leave her side just in case she woke up. Stefan and Elena came up in the meantime with food for her brother. Both wondered when the Mikaelson girl would awaken from her dagger-induced sleep.

"Still nothing?" His sister questioned as she handed him his dinner.

Jeremy shook his head slightly and took the plate. "Good news is she's lacking prominent veins now. The bad news is that it happened like 3 hours ago and there's still no sign of her waking up. Not even in the slightest." He looked upon the pale YHC-haired girl that lay on his bed and sighed.

"She'll wake up soon enough, Jer. Don't worry too much about it." Stefan said as he looked on from his spot in the doorway before moving over to where Elena was standing beside her brother.

"I'm not worried," Jemery admitted. "I'm just impatiently waiting. It's been a while, ya know?" For him, it was the god's honest truth. It was the first time in 6 months he had seen her. It had been 2 months since he had spoken to her. The youngest Gilbert had missed YN more than he could have even described. Now she was so close to him yet still so far away and he just couldn't wait to hear her voice again.

"I get it." the youngest Salvatore said and patted Jeremy's shoulder.

After Jeremy finished eating Elena and Stefan cleared out of the room to give the 2 some space when YN woke up. Jeremy went back to his desk in hopes that his homework would occupy his mind enough to pass the time instead of just sitting there staring at the Mikaelson girl waiting for something to happen and it seemed to work. He was typing up an essay for one of his classes when there came a loud gasp from behind him. He turned around as fast as he could and was met with the sight of YN's beautiful YEC eyes already looking at him.

"Jer?" She questioned. "How did I get here?"

The youngest Mikaelson was highly confused, and he definitely understood why. He would have also been as confused as she was if Elena had daggered him into a semi-eternal death-like slumber in one place and woke up seeing YN casually reading her book in her favorite chair in another that was hundreds of miles away from the last. It was enough to cause anyone a small case of whiplash.

The young Gilbert boy walked over to the bed and sat next to her once again. "Rebekah and Kol brought you back. Said you were safer here than you would be with them."

YNN scuffed slightly. "That's ironic considering me wanting to come back here is why Niklaus daggered me in the first place. Said he wanted to keep his family together after we were apart for so long," she said and rolled her eyes.

"Well from what I heard from Stefan; they told Damon that he was the one that sent them to bring you back," Jeremy confessed as he pushed a piece of hair that had fallen in her face back behind her ear.

YN laughed lightly. "Yeah, that tracks. Can never do it himself." She leaned into his touch and looked up at him smiling. "Hey."

The Gilbert boy smiled back at her as he looked back into those YEC eyes that he missed so much. "Hey, you."

Just then Damon peaked his head in the door. "I knew I heard my favorite Mikaelson finally speak."

YN let out another laugh. This one was far less sarcastic than the last. "I do believe I am the only Mikaelson worthy of getting into Damon Salvatore's good graces." She said and looked at him. "I heard I was dropped on your porch like an unwanted orphan."

"It was more like placed in my arms like a puppy being returned to its owner. But you know you're always wanted here, YNN." The oldest Salvatore said. "But no matter how you got here, we're just happy to have you back. Especially your little boy toy, there. He's been wallowing in self-pity since you left."

Jeremy grabbed the closest pillow he could reach and chucked it at Damon with full force. "Go on somewhere, will you?"

The older Salvatore laughed as he walked back down the hallway.

YNN looked over at her boyfriend with an amused look on her face. "Self-pity he says." She recited followed by a small laugh of her own.

"He doesn't know what he's talking about." He said in denial. Jeremy was quite alright when YN agreed to follow the rest of her family to New Orleans. They had all just reunited fully and she didn't want to give that up quite yet even if Klaus wasn't giving her any other option. She would call him daily to give him small updates on how everything was going and always made the promise to come back to Mystic Falls after she had got the solidarity with her siblings she was looking for. Then the calls stopped, and he worried she had since changed her mind about returning. But she was back now and relief was all he felt.

"Oh, I'm sure he doesn't," YN said with an amused smile on her face. "Gods, it's good to be home."