An Elemental Difference - AIR - Book 1 (Stefan Salvatore)

Chapter 42 - You hurt that girl and you will pay.

It was quiet in the kitchen as Aella awkwardly continued sipping her juice. When it passed the five minute mark of silence Aella decided to suggest an idea that had been floating around for a few days, "Sooooo... I had a thought..."

The vampires groaned in sync which caused the two of them to finally meet each others eyes and betray their anger with each other when small grins appeared at Aella words.

"Is this thought more successful than when you blown up 50 balloons and then put them in a bag tapped to the doorway to scare me when I opened it, only to realise that the door swung the opposite way... and the bag never opened?" Lexi smirked and had to chuckle when Aella stuck out her tongue at her.

"Or about the time you tried to do the snowsled scene from Home Alone..." Stefan grinned at her, "And if Lexi hadn't have been around to catch you, we would have been spending the evening at the hospital."

"They don't count," Aella held a finger up to both of them with a firm nod. "Those were boredom ideas.. Not thoughts! Plus-" she grinned evilly at the blonde"-that was the most fun Lexi's had since Stefan's birthday, right Lex?"

Lexi was quiet as she tried to hide her amusement, but Aella's grin could not hold it back and she had to laugh and nod at the moment Aella realised her Sled was not cooperating on the large stairs within the Salvatore Mansion as she screamed out for Stefan in terror. "That was a moment to remember forever."

Aella pointed at the blonde proudly as Stefan rolled his eyes,"What's your thought?"

Aella decided this was a subject where it was always best to rip of the bandaid quick and that's how she delivered her thought, "Can vampires become immune to vervain?"

Lexi and Stefan winced without a second thought at the notion, but before they could argue Aella continued, "Try not to think about the pain it would take to go through, but really think what the possibilities could be if you both became immune to one of the main things that can affect you."

Stefan looked to Lexi and shrug his shoulder, "She's not wrong." Aella smirked and Stefan was quick to remove it as he added, "this time."

This time Aella's tongue poked out at him.

"But how would we do it?" Lexi asked Aella, she'd heard of vampires trying in the past but no succeeding due to the pain.

"It's different to blood..." Aella began to explain more of what she had been pondering the past few weeks. "It's a weapon that you can't hide within anything. I think, like we did with Stefan's human blood, we'd be better to just start small, multiple times a day and work our way up."

Lexi and Stefan shared a secret conversation with their eyes that had Aella amazed the first time they had done it, with a quick nod Stefan left the room only to return seconds later with a very familiar glass bottle with liquid inside.

"Now?" Aella squealed, eyes wide.

Stefan poured only a few drops into two shot glasses, "Better to start now before we back out later."

Aella winced as the two vampires picked up the glasses and shared to hesitant nods, there was no easy way to do it though, even if diluted with any other liquid it was still poison to their bodies. And the more potent vervain they drank it now, the quicker - she hoped - they would become accustomed to it within their bodies. She closed her eyes when the two drank the few drops, feeling slightly sick as they moaned in pain at the feeling. When they finished Aella ran out to the bar and poured two full glasses of Whiskey and ran back handing them to the still coughing vampires. They both gladly took the alcohol from her and gulped the drink down with a different painless wince.