The Vampire Diaries(BxB)

2: He's Back

I'm still walking to the kitchen, and see John on the floor, groaning, holding his stomach, and see a bloody knife next to his right about two feet away, and gasp, and run over to him. "Oh! God!" I exclaim, and grab some a towel, and crouch down next to him, applying pressure with my left hand, and look up, and grab the phone with my right hand, and dial nine one one, and put it to my right ear. "Nine one one, what's your emergency?" A female voice asks. "Hi, I need an ambulance to two one four Maple Street." I say. "Behind you." He says. "What?" I ask. "Behind you!" John exclaims, as I hang up, and turn around, gasping, and look back at John, and see the knife, and pick it up with my right hand, and stand up, walking to towards the door, and see a shadow pass by, and turn around, gasping, holding the knife out, and walk forward, and hear the door open and shut, and I turn around, and as I gasp. "Jeremy!" I exclaim, and look up the stairs, and run to up the stairs, and into Jeremy's room, and see him unconscious. "Jeremy!" I exclaim, jumping on his bed, and shake him. "Please, Jeremy, wake up! I'm sorry about this!" I exclaim, and slap him with my right hand, and he gasps, waking up. I'm on the stairs, and see John being transported and out the door, and see Stefan walk in, and a Caucasian male officer stop him. "He's okay." I say, and he lets Stefan by, and he runs up the door, and I grab his left arm, and we run to Jeremy's room, as I let his arm go. "What happened?" Stefan asks, as I pull out the empty blood vial and my old pill bottle. "He said that Anna gave him her blood, and he took these pills." I say, and he takes the pill bottle from my hand. "And now, I mean, he looks fine, but then again so do you. So I just. I don't know." I say, and he throws the pill bottle, and crouches in front of Jeremy, touching the sides of his face. "Come here, look at me." He says. "No, I'm fine, okay? I feel exactly the same." Jeremy says. "Should I call a Paramedic up here? What should I do?" I ask. "No. He's fine." Stefan says, and stands up. "So you mean I'm not a Vampire?" Jeremy asks, as I'm looking at Stefan. "Fucking Damn it." Jeremy says, and I look at him. "Don't say that. Jeremy. Jeremy, why would you want that?" I ask. "Did you hear about Anna, what happened to her tonight?" He asks, standing up, getting in front of me. "She's dead." He says, and I gasp, and Stefan grabs both sides of his face, sitting him on the bed. "Jeremy, Jeremy, come here, sit down. I am very sorry about Anna. But it's very important that you listen to me right now. With every passing moment, Anna's blood is leaving your system. If you tried to kill yourself right now, you could really die." Stefan says, and slaps Jeremy's right cheek. "Hey! Do you understand me?" Stefan asks. "Stefan.." I say. "Yeah. I understand." Jeremy says. "Good." Stefan says, and puts his hands down, and walks over to me, and I look at Jeremy, and then to him. "What about those pills that he took?" I ask. "He didn't take enough to die. So Anna's blood actually healed him of that." He says, and I hear a knock on the door, and turn around, and see the officer from earlier. "Mr. Ethan Gilbert." He says. "I'll be right there." I say, and face Jeremy. "You need to be at the Hospital." He says, and I look at Jeremy. "But.." I say, and Stefan interrupts me. "No, no, I'll stay here with Jeremy." Stefan says, as I look at him, and hold his left hand. "No, I don't need a babysitter." Jeremy says, and I look at him. "Yes. You do." I say, nodding, and turn back to Stefan, and peck his lips. "Ok." I say, and turn around, and run out the door. I'm at the Hospital, and see Mark. "Mark." I say, and he turns around. "How's Tony?" I ask. "He's weak. They don't know if he's gonna make it." He says. "What?" I ask, and he wraps his arms around my neck, and I put my hands around his back, and we hug each other, and release. "Is there something that you can do? Like a spell or something?" I ask. "He doesn't know how." Damon says, as we look at him, and see him approach us. "Do you?" He asks, smiling. "No. I don't." Mark says, as I look at him. "No, you don't." Damon says, and I touch my forehead with my right hand, and sigh. "Because it took Emily years to learn a spell like that." Damon says, as I put my hand down. "Oh, well, I can take down a Vampire. That spell was easy to learn." Mark says. "I can give Tony some blood." Damon says, and I look at him. "No. No way." I say, shaking my head. "No, no, no, just enough to heal him. He'll be safe in the Hospital, and it'll be out of his system in a day. He'll be better, Ethan." He says. "It's too risky. I can't agree to that." I say. "Do it." Mark says, and we look at him, and he looks at me. "This is Tony. Ok? We can't let him die." He says, and looks back at Damon. "Do it." Mark says, and I look at Damon. "If I do this." He says, and points at Mark and himself, with his right index finger. "You and me, call a truce?" He asks, smiling, and extends his right hand. "No." Mark says, and Damon puts his hand down. "But you'll do it anyway. For Ethan." Mark says, and I look at him, he looks at me, and I sigh, and nod, and he walks off, and I look to my left. "Uh. All right, I know this is probably the last thing you want to do right now, but we should talk about what happened tonight." He says, and I look at him. "Yeah, one of the Tomb Vampires got into the house and almost killed John!" I exclaim, quietly. "What? What. When? What are you talking about, after I left?" He asks, and I become confused. "You were there?" I ask. "Come on, Ethan, you know I was." He says. "Uh.. when were you at the house?" I ask. "Really? Earlier. On the porch. We were talking, all cathartic, feelings exposed. Come on, we kissed, Ethan." He says, and I wave my left hand, rolling my eyes, and put my hand down. "Ok.. I don't have time for this, Damon." I say, beginning to walk off, and he grabs my right arm, and I look at him. "Hey. If you want to forget it happened, fine. But I can't." He says. "Ethan!" Jenna exclaims, as we look at her, and Damon walks away after letting my arm go. "I came as soon as I got your message. How is John?" She asks. "Where have you been?" I ask. "At the Fire Department. I had to fill out a report. I told you earlier." She says. "No, you didn't." I say. "Yes, I did." She says, smiling, and nods. "No, Jenna, you didn't." I say. "Yes, I did." She says. "I would have remembered." I say. "Ohh." Damon says, as we look at him. "Mm, you gotta be kidding me." He says, and runs off. "What's that about?" She asks. "I don't.. oh, my God." I say, and run after Damon. I run up my steps, and open my door and walk in, seeing Stefan on the floor, and he stands up. "Stefan?" I ask. "Ethan." He says. "What happened?" I ask. "Alex happened." Damon says, as I look at him, and back to Stefan. I walk back into the kitchen, after telling Jeremy what happened, and see Stefan and Damon, looking at me. "I told Jeremy. I can't lie to him anymore." I say, shaking my head. "Are you all right?" Stefan asks, approaching me. "No, I'm not all right." I say, and look at Damon, and back to Stefan. "I that with all the Tomb Vampires gone, things would get better." I say, and Stefan nods. "I know. We all did." I say, and look at Damon, and back to Stefan. "Alex was in this house. That means that he's been invited in. What are we going to do?" I ask, looking at Damon. "Move." He says. "Very helpful." I say, nodding. "Thank you." I say. "Alex wants you dead, there's zero you can do about it, you would be dead, but you're not. So clearly he has other plans." He says, and I sigh, look at Stefan, and look behind me, and sit down. "Right, and we need to find what those other plans are and not provoke him in the process. What happened tonight when you thought he was Ethan?" Stefan asks, as I'm looking at him, and look at Damon. "To risk another.. frown line encroaching on a very crowded forehead.." Damon says, walking around. "We.. kissed." He says, smiling. "And you thought it was me?" I ask. "What do you mean, you kissed?" Stefan asks. "Well, you know, when two lips pucker and they." Damon says, puckering his lips, and makes a kissing noise, and Stefan dashes towards him, and Damon dashes to where Stefan was. "Don't be obvious, Stefan." Damon says, and Stefan walks towards him, and I get up, and put my left hand in front of Stefan. "Stefan wait, he kissed Alex, not me." I say, and put it down, and look at Damon. "I wouldn't do that. We don't have time for this, guys." I say, and look at Stefan. "Later." He says to Damon, nodding. "John must know something." I say, and look at Damon. "There has to be a reason why Alex tried to kill him." I say. "He's Alex." He says, and crosses his arms. "He loves to play games, and you're fooling yourself if you think you're going to find out what he's up to before he wants you to know." Damon says. "No, actually, Ethan's right." Stefan says, as I look at him. "John could know something through Isobel. Your Mother, she was in touch with Alex, so maybe we can go to the Hospital and talk." He says, touching my left shoulder, and I nod. "I've got a better idea." Damon says, and I look at him. "What's that?" I ask. "I'm just gonna ignore the bastard. See ya." Damon says. "Is that smart?" I ask. "If Alex thinks he's being ignored, it'll lure him out. He'll make a move." He says, smiling. "Yeah? Then what?" Stefan asks, as I look at him, and back to Damon. "Stake him, rip his head off. Something poetic. We'll see." He says, and walks off. I arrive to the Hospital with Stefan, holding my left hand in his right. "Ready for this?" He asks, as we stop at John's door, and I let his hand go, and walk in, and walk over to John, listening to the beeping machine and look at him. "John?" I ask, and he opens his eyes, gasping, reaching for the panic button with his left hand, and Stefan grabs his hand with his right, and pulls John's hand off, and takes the panic button from him. "I'm Ethan, I'm not. I'm not Alex." I say, shaking my head. "We know he did this to you." Stefan says. "We need to know why." I say. "Where is he?" John asks, as Stefan crosses his arms, and I look at him. "You tell us." He says. "I don't know." John says, beginning to sit up, and Stefan holds him back with his left hand, and John groans. "You're a little too weak to play tough guy. Why don't you just sit back and answer a few questions?" Stefan asks, pushing him back, and I pull out John's ring from my right pocket, and put it in his left hand. "Please. Tell us why he's here. What does he want?" I ask, and he doesn't respond. "He'll try again. We can't help you if you don't confide in us." Stefan says. "In you?" John asks, and I look at Stefan, as he's looking at me. "In your son, then." He says, and we look back at John. "My son should have driven a stake through your heart by now." John says to Stefan, and then looks at me. "I haven't spoke with Alex directly. He never trusted me." He says, and looks at Stefan. "So either kill me or get out. Because I can't stand the sight of you with my son. Because you are a Vampire, not the whole same gender thing." He says, and I shake my head. "You see the World with such hatred. It's gonna get you killed." I say, and turn around, and walk off, and out the door. I'm walking out of the Hospital, holding hands with Stefan, my right in his left. "Hey, I just have to swing by home to pick up Jenna and Jeremy so we can go to the Lockwoods'. How did you leave him there, John?" I ask. "I, uh.. I asked him to leave town." He says. "Asked?" I ask, smiling. "You threatened him." I say, and we stop walking. "Yeah, I threatened him." He says, letting my hand go, and stepping in front of me. "Good. I want him gone, Stefan. I know that I shouldn't feel that way but I don't want someone like that in my life. Or Jeremy's life." I say, as he looks down, and back up to me, and nods. "I know, I know." He says, and I sigh, and put my hands on his shoulders, and wrap my arms around his neck, resting my head on his shoulder, and he wraps his arms around my waist. "So what now?" I ask, and we stop hugging. "Now.. I need to go find Damon." He says, looking to his left. "Please, Stefan, don't fight with him." I say, as he looks at me, and I shake my head. "No, Ethan, he tried to kiss you. I'm not okay with that." He says. "That's not the problem, Alex is. He's already messing with both of your heads and Damon is not stable when it comes to him." I say, as he looks down, and back up to me. "The last thing we need is to make things worse." I say, and he looks down, and nods, and looks up to the right. I'm walking to Jenna's car with Jeremy and her, and my phone rings. "Hello?" I ask. "Ethan, pal, where are you?" He asks. "Mark, I know. I'm late. I'm getting in the car now." I say, opening the passenger door. "I'll be there in five." I say, and hang up, and get in, and close my door. We soon arrive to the Lockwood Manor, walking to the front door. "Looks like the who town has turned out." Jenna says, as she's carrying a dish of Macaroni and Cheese. "Yeah, well, he is. He was the Mayor. Do you think Mason is back?" I ask. "Why don't they save it for the Funeral?" Jeremy asks, as I roll my sleeves of my gray hoodie up. "It's what people do. The Lockwoods were here for us when we went through this. It'll be quick. We'll drop off the food and pay our respects and go." She says, as we walk up the steps and through the door, and I look to my right, and see Damon. "In and out? Sounds like a plan." Jeremy says, and I look back at them. "You guys go ahead, I'll be right there, okay?" I ask, and turn back to Damon, and walk over to him. "Hi. How are you doing?" I ask, and he looks forward. "Great, Ethan. Walking on Sunshine. Thanks for asking." He says, and looks at me. "Damon.." I say. "Ethan.." He says. "We should be able to talk about this." I say, and notice he's holding a cup, and drinks it, looking forward. "Damon, we're close enough now. I really want to know how you're doing." I say, nodding. "I kissed you, I thought you kissed back. Doppelganger hijinks ensued." He says, and looks at me. "How do you think I'm doing?" He asks, and looks forward. "I think that you're hurt." I say, and he looks back to me, groaning. "Hm. Oh, I don't get hurt, Ethan." He says, smiling. "No, you don't admit that you get hurt. You get angry and cover it up and then you do something stupid." I say. "You're scared. You think Alex is gonna send me off the deep end, don't you? I don't need him for that." He says, and begins to walk off. "You know, why." He says, and I look at him. "Why is it such a surprise that I would kiss you?" He asks. "That's not a surprise. I'm surprised that you thought I would kiss you back." I say. "Now I'm hurt." He says, giving a sad smile, and turns around, and we see Mark. "Ethan!" He exclaims. "Mark, what happened?" I ask. "Alex. He's here." He says. I'm lifting Stefan's shirt up, cleaning his wound from Alex, and sigh. "Are you gonna be okay?" I ask, looking at him, and he nods, and looks down. "Yeah. It'll heal." He says, and I look at his wound. "That's not what I meant." I say, and look back at him, and he looks forward, and down, and shakes his head. "I was trying to figure him out." He says, looking up. "I was playing along, I let him get to me. "We tried to track him, but he's gone." Damon says, as we look at him. "Ooh, cover up, Fabio." He says, turning his face, and I put Stefan's shirt down. "We got a crazy ex on the loose." He says, looking back at me. "Better watch out, looks like Alex's trying to steal your guy." He says, smiling, and I look at Stefan. "That's not what's happening." He says, and looks down. "Isn't it? I mean, it's only fair, since I.. went after your boy." Damon says, and I look at him, and look back at Stefan. "I'm gonna go check on Jenna and Jeremy. Let me know when you guys are done." I say, standing up, and grab my bag. "He said he liked your style. The black and all." Stefan says. "Maybe we'll choke him to death with a long sleeve." I say, and walk off. I'm in my bathroom, looking in the mirror, and sigh. I walk out of my bathroom, and into my bedroom, and see Damon sitting on the edge of the bed, and I gasp. "Oh, God. You scared me." I say. "Just doing my part in the Neighborhood Watch." He says, and I walk over to him. "Thanks. For, um, looking out for us. For me." I say. "That's me, you're trusty Bodyguard. Calm in a crisis." He says. "Have you been drinking?" I ask, and he looks at me, and raises his left index and thumb together, symbolizing just a little, and puts his head down. "And you're upset. That's not a good combination." I say, and he looks away from me. "No, I'm not upset. Upset is an emotion specific to those who care." He says. "Come on, Damon. That's a lie. You care." I say, and he looks at me. "You're surprised that I thought you would kiss me back? You can't imagine that I'd believe that you'd want to?" He asks. "Damon.." I say, and he interrupts me. "That what we've been doing here means something? You're the Liar, Ethan. There is something going on between the two of us, and you know it." He says, and stands up, and walks over to me. "And you're lying to me, and you're lying to Stefan, and most of all, you're lying to yourself. I can prove it." He says. "No.." I say, as he puts his hands on the sides of my face, kissing me, but I don't kiss back, as I try to push him off. "Damon, dont! What's wrong with you?!" I exclaim, softly. "Lie about this." He says, taking my hands, and trying to kiss me again, and I stop him. "Stop it. You're better than this, come on." I say. "That's where you're wrong." He says, trying to kiss me again. "No, no, no, Damon!" I exclaim, pushing his face away from mine. "I care about you. Listen to me,  I care about you. I do, but.. I love Stefan. It's always going to be Stefan." I say, shaking my head, and crying. "Ethan, what's going on in here?" Jeremy asks, as we look at him, and I pull my hands back, as he lets go. "Nothing, Jeremy. It's okay. Just. Just go back to bed." I say, sighing. "No, it's not okay, Ethan." Damon says, as I look at him, and he looks at me. "He wants to be a Vampire." He says, and looks at Jeremy, and dashes to him, pinning him against the wall, as I look at him. "No, Damon, stop it!" I exclaim, jogging forward. "You want to shut out the pain? It's the easiest thing in the World. That part of you that cares, it just goes away! All you have to do is flip the switch and snap!" Damon exclaims, and snaps Jeremy's neck, killing him. "Damon!" I exclaim, as Jeremy falls. "No!" I yell, running over, and crouch next to Jeremy, and i begin crying a lot more. Intensely. I look up at Damon, an he turns around, and walks out the door, and I look back at Jeremy, gasping, holding his arm right arm, and notice a ring on his left finger, and put my hand down, and grab his left hand with my right, and look up at the ring. The Supernatural Protection Ring, and sigh in relief. Stefan's here, as I'm holding Jeremy's up close to me. "He saw the ring, that's why he did it. He knew." He says. "He didn't see the ring." I say, shaking my head. "It's Alex. He got under his skin. He undid everything that was good about him." He says. "There's nothing good about him." I say, shaking my head. "Stefan, not anymore. He's decided what he wants. He doesn't want to feel, he wants to be hated. It's just easier that way. He got his wish." I say, nodding, and begin crying even more, and look at Stefan. "I hate him, Stefan." I say, as he jogs over to me, and touch my shoulders, as I pull Jeremy closer. "I know. I know." He says, and kisses my left shoulder, and Jeremy moves, gasping, waking up, and I hold his head, and Stefan holds the sides of his face. "Is he okay? Stefan, is he okay?" I ask. "He's okay. You're okay. Sh." Stefan says, and puts his hands down, and I sigh in relief. "Damon killed me." Jeremy says. "Sh, it's okay. Oh, God." I say.