Inaction's and Consequences

Chapter 22

Disclaimer:I do not own anything related to The Vampire Diaries, TV show orbooks. However I decided to have a little play around with the characters (I would definitely like to play with Damon).

Damon arrived at Mystic Falls General Hospital on business. He wanted to check on Meredith to make sure there was no fall out from Alaric's confession, the clean up of compelling everyone involved had been a bitch and had kept him occupied while Elena had been busy trying to play human with Stefan after she first transitioned. Fortunately he'd made sure everyone was back in the dark once more before Elena had decided to choose him, which was good, otherwise it would have been interrupting his and Elena's' Getting to know you' time, which Damon figured was going to last at least another two hundred years.

Damon found what, or rather who he was looking for writing some note at the reception desk at the far end of the hallway. Sneaking up to Meredith from behind, Damon put his hands over both eyes.

"Hows my favorite sexy psycho doctor?" he asked jokingly as Meredith pushed his hands away from her face in annoyance as if she were squatting a fly, before turning round.

"Damon!" she said through gritted teeth.

"That's me." Damon replied offering her his biggest grin.

"What do you want?" she snapped, glaring at him, prompting Damon to pout in protest.

"What makes you think I want anything?" he asked innocently. "Maybe I was just passing through and thought I'd pay my favorite doctor a visit and say hi." he added,however Dr Fell just folded her arms and raised an eyebrow in suspicion, whilst continuing to simply glare at Damon. "Fine you got me." he eventually said, rolling his eyes. "I need a favor." he admitted, looking a little sheepish.

"Come with me." Meredith said as she walked down the hallway, whilst Damon followed, before leading him into an office. "We can talk in here." she said as she made a quick check to see if anyone was following before she closed the door behind them. "Okay, so what do you need?" she finally asked.

"We need to be able to stop the hunter from hunting whilst we take him on a little vacation." Damon explained. "Something to help him sleep like a baby. We don't want him getting car sick." he winked.

"You want sedatives?" Meredith asked.

"Yeah, like the ones you gave Ric." Damon gulped. It was still painful just to say his name. "But I suspect he might be harder to take down. We're hoping Bonnie can put a protection spell on me so I can get close enough to inject him."he explained.

"Okay, fine." Meredith sighed walking over to the door. "You wait here and I'll go get something." she added leaving Damon to wait for her to return.

Elena was stood alone in the kitchen pouring herself a mug of coffee, whilst Jeremy was playing some combat game on the 'PlayStation' in the living room when there was a knock at the front door.

"Elena, it's me." Stefan said from the other side.

"Come in." she replied as he opened the door, walked in and headed over towards her. "Want one?"she offered, holding out her cup to him. "It's fresh."

"No I'm fine." he replied, taking out the dagger and the small jar of white oak ash the inside of his 'Top Gun' style leather jacket. "Here!" he offered, handing them over to her. "What now?" he asked.

"Bonnie has already spelled the house."Elena told him. "We just need to get Kol to come here and invite him in." she explained. "He'll go down with a headache as soon as he walks in and that means Jeremy can dagger him."

"Do you need me to stay?" Stefan asked.

"Probably a good idea." Elena smiled. "We could probably use an extra pair of hands, just in case we need to hold Kol for Jer to get a clean shot." she told him as Stefan nodded at her explanation. "Also, we need you to let Klaus know,and it's best if you've witnessed it first hand. You know what he can be like." she said.