When Daphne returns home to Mystic Falls after her final year at Hogwarts, finding it infested with vampires was not what she expected, let alone that her sister is in a relationship with one. Learning to readapt to the muggle world, keeping her mag...
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Damon goes through a magical plant book as Daphne seemingly does some more research. It's quiet. But it's not awkward. He thought it would be. He's not one for silence. But with her, he doesn't feel the need to fill the quiet. Plus he can snoop a little whilst she's quiet and focused on her work. He picks up another book and then another. She has a lot of plant books just lying around.
"So you have to learn about every single magical plant out there?" He asks as he turns the herbology book around. Daphne hums and makes some notes in her little book.
"You think you can hold down your brother long enough for me to get a sample?" She asks, Damon gives her a weird look. "Blood" She offers. "I just want his blood"
"Why?" He draws out.
"If I can test a few theories, then it's the blood that gets the side effects and not your brother" She explains as she scribbles down a few more things. "At least until I hear back from Hermione about that book" She tickles her quill over her cheek as she thinks. There are a few things she can try but that book is definitely their best shot. Her phone rings on the bedside table. Without thinking, Daphne holds out her hand and the phone flies across the room, almost taking Damon's head off, and into her hand. He turns a look on her but she just smirks back at him before she looks down at the phone. Frowns. Elena's calling her in the middle of the day. When she's at school. That can't be a good thing. She answers the call and presses it to her ear. "Elena?"
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At the school, in the gym, Elena is lifting weights on an incline bench when Damon walks in, alone. Tucking his hands into his pockets as he gives her a weird look, unaware when she'd taken up working out.
"What? Are you going to bench press a vampire?" He teases her. Elena rolls her eyes.
"Do you actually know what's happening right now?" She argues. "Stefan called me a human blood bag. He's a completely different person" He presses down on the bar she's lifting with one hand. She tries to push it up. "Unh! What are you doing?"
"Helping you out" Damon answers.
"Damon!" Elena scolds, struggling against the bar.
"Come on, Buffy!" Damon teases, encouraging her with a smirk.
"Stop it!" Elena lets go of the bar. The bar remains mid-air held by Damon, who lifts it and places it on the rack. "Like one obnoxious Salvatore isn't bad enough" She sits down. "Where's Daph?"
"Here," Daphne offers as she walks into the room, sliding a book into her bag. "Sorry, got distracted...So you called. We're here" Damon folds his arms over his chest.
"What's your plan, oh warrior princess?" He asks Elena.
"I want to lock Stefan up, at least until this Mikael guy comes, kills Klaus, and the compulsion breaks" Elena admits. Daphne raises an eyebrow and looks at Damon. It is an interesting plan. Whether or not it will work is another thing. She doesn't really agree with locking up people, but if he's out here being a risk to them all, then she'll do it.
"Compulsion or not, Stefan's high on human blood, okay? A lot of it" Damon points out and shakes his head at Daphne, seemingly understanding the question in her eyes. He doesn't think it will work.
"You've gotten him off of it before" Elena points out.
"This is different. It's not a stint in rehab, Elena. His humanity's gone. Light's out. No one's home" Damon argues, Elena looks at the two of them. Daphne seems to be on Damon's side here. He knows Stefan better. He is the authority on Stefan knowledge. Elena looks down.
"Every single time I look at him, I feel like I'm going to break. And I'm not going to give him that satisfaction....please"
"We just have to do it till I can work through what does and doesn't work" Daphne offers to Damon who nods a little. Short term could work, until she finds what she needs. "Hopefully that book'll come through from the Ministry...." She mumbles to herself. "Of course locking him up means that I could have unrestricted access to his blood" Elena gives her a weird look and then looks at Damon for an answer, he just shakes his head. "I could set up a boundary spell...hmmm"
"Okay, so we're locking him up?" Damon asks her, she looks at him and then nods.
"Short term, yes" She answers. The two of them share a look and he nods. He'll trust her on this. And that's crazy. He barely knows the girl. He knows it's because she's already proven to be smarter than them. More powerful. Quick wit. He likes that. He likes how spunky and smart-mouthed she is. That it hides her intelligence. She can offer snappy retorts with a dirty smirk and yet knows how to effectively and efficiently wield her magic. "Fuck" Daphne complains a little, but it's a little on the breathy side.
"What?" Damon asks her, she looks at him.
"Nothing" She offers. He raises an eyebrow at her. She then steps closer to him. "Did you forget that I can read minds?" She whispers and then bites her lip.
"You gonna tell me you don't bend that way?" he asks, she shakes her head.
"Wouldn't you like to know, Vampire-Boy?" She purrs. Daphne seems to find it a lot easier to deal with flirtation when it is in public, because she knows that's all it can be and as far as it can go. In private, there is something more. A tension between them which tells her that they both want to do more. Elena smirks.
"Okay," She stops them. "Can we deal with Stefan....and then you two can eye bang to your heart's content later?" Daphne looks at Elena over her shoulder. There is something teasing in Elena's eyes but more than that. Acceptance. Like she actually thinks they can work together. But Elena doesn't know what Daphne does. And with what's hiding inside of her, she can never risk getting that close to anyone. Even Damon wouldn't be safe from her.
