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04. Can We Talk About Arabella?

(A WEEK LATER,AROUND THE AFTERNOON)

Ryan frowned at the package he’d just received. Vervain flowers. He was quite confused with the fact that the town’s council sent his family vervain flowers. Then,his twin;Erik came with headphones covering his ears. At the sight of the flowers,he removed the headphones and reached for the flowers.

“Vervain?” Erik looked at Ryan and they exchanged looks. Then Ryan looked around to make sure they were alone. With hushed tone,he spoke.

“Yes. It is vervain flowers,Erik.” He confirmed with a duh! tone.

“Vampires?” Erik guessed but he continued. “But,vervain can’t contain vampires. Most lore on vervain can affect vampires are crap. A stake driven to their hearts or beheading will. The only way to paralyze a vampire is dead man’s blood. Why—let’s not forget that these also act as an herb but—”

“Okay,okay. Don’t be all nerd over this. Here’s the juice. The guy that made the delivery,he told me to make sure that every family member consume this or carry it around. The town council had these flowers distributed to the council members. I start to gather there are possibilities that Mystic Falls have vampire problem.” Ryan concluded.

His twin smirked. “This is Mystic Falls. Shall be no worries. Nothing bad ever happened here.” He mocked with a sing-song tune. He continued, “So,brother? Should we do what we should do?”

Ryan raised an eyebrow. “You mean,take them out? We have hunters for a reason,Erik. That’s not our job. That’s hunter’s job. Let’s be sure first before sending out info to the apes.”

Erik scoffed in disagreement. “Really,Ryan? Apes? What do you have against hunters? I rather enjoyed being out there than be like us now.”

“Hunters are alpha-male-monkey dudes. The very fact that you wanted to be a hunter the one that got me against the likes of them. What do you mean be like us? We are far beyond awesome than those apes.” Ryan commented. Erik then chuckled.

“Aw,I know you love me,brother. Don’t worry,I’m not leaving M.O.L to be a hunter. I mean,why leave when you can be both hunters and M.O.L,like you and me?” Erik said as he put down the flowers and then,

“Ooh! Flowers!”

Their sister,Arabella came down the stairs and went to them. “Who sent this—what is this flower?”

She asked as she hovered over the purple flowers.

“Vervain flowers.” Ryan answered shortly.

Their sister sniffed the bunched for smell but ended coughing. Erik smiled and exchanged looks with his twin,assuming that their sister sniffed up pollens that made her cough but then the situation went funny.

Their sister’s coughs went to a fit. She coughed and gagged so hard that Ryan dashed to her side.

“Hey! Ara! Snap out of it! This is not funny!” he warned,with thoughts that his sister faking a seizure or something. But when his sister fell onto the floor,gasping as if she just had an asthma attack,they knew she’s not faking it.

Ryan kneeled by her as he cradled her upper body. “I..can’t breathe! Do..something!” she shrieked between her grave gasps.

Ryan had shouted for help from the butler. Arabella’s gasps went heavy as if she was choking on something. Erik can’t bear seeing his sister in pain so,he kneeled by her side and didn’t hesitate to fish out a little pouch from his pocket. He popped it opened and took a pinch of the yellow powder.

“Bah rah gah doh.” He spoke in low voice and blew the powder to her sister’s visage. With that,Arabella was knocked out. As the rushed footsteps of the family’s butler and maids heading towards the siblings,Ryan had glared at his twin brother.

“You carry that thing around?” he asked as he scooped her sister in her arms and lifted her up.

Erik nodded as he put back the pouch in his pocket. “Just in case. Look,she’s knocked out but the asthma thing is not gone. She’s barely breathing. We need to go to the hospital.”

Ryan nodded in agreement as they,along with the family’s butler rushed out to go to the hospital.

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(SALVATORE’S LIVING HALL)

“So,about Arabella,” Caroline started. Elena,whom was being tickled by Stefan on the couch stopped chuckling as soon as she heard Arabella’s name. Elena cleared her throat.

“What about her?” she asked dumbly and Caroline pretty much glared at Elena’s direction.

Stefan had silently frowned at Caroline.

“Elena,you do know she’s back,right? I say let’s not make things more complicated and you and Bonnie just make a truce with her?”

“Care,I knew her my whole life. We all are. And I’m sure there’s no kind of apology that she will accept for what I’d—I’d done.” Elena returned the stare and that’s when Damon came in.

Damon was about to interfere but Stefan shook his head to his brother quietly,signaling no and the older brother obliged.

Caroline chuckled humorlessly as she rolled her eyes. “So now you feel regret of what you’ve done? Maybe that thought should’ve popped out before you went all tell-a-tale,doing a freaking revelation back then. Look,I want to make this thing clear. Arabella was and still is our friend,if not,at least mine. It’s been about a week she’s here. I’m alright with her not getting involved in our freaky supernatural situation but what I am not alright is the Mikaelsons had their eyes fixed on her.”

Damon raised an eyebrow. “Mikaelsons? With ‘s’ as in plural?”

Caroline took a quick glance to Damon before answering. “I found out that Elijah saved her from being hit by a truck on the very first few hours of her arrival in Mystic Falls. Then there is Rebekah,who seem very intrigued to be friends with her. Last but not least,Kol. That impulsive son of a gun stuck to her like a gum!”

Stefan clenched his jaw and huffed. “Kol. Naturally.” He had muttered with a light head shook. He was sure that he warned the youngest Original to back off from harassing but apparently,the youngest Original didn’t care about the warning.

Damon whistled in amusement. “Why would the Mikaelsons do that?”

Caroline took a deep breath and responded,“Whatever the reasons are,its always not the good ones. Elena,I really can’t let anything bad happened to her. I really really can’t. We have to do something before the Mikaelsons turned her into their private drinking bottle or I don’t know,worse?”

“You meant like worse-dead?” Damon guessed playfully. But that had earned sharp stares from Caroline. Then he sighed and smirked. “Okay,I do not think we should do something because if you just think for a moment that maybe if the Mikaelsons wanted her dead,she would be dead already. But no,she’s perfectly up and kicking. Who knows maybe vampire Barbie finally found a friend and maybe,just maybe that tech-infatuated diabolic son a bitch finally found other thing to do than going around draining blood out of people and annoy me. Falling in love maybe?” Damon suggested breezily.

“Damon,that’s five Maybes you’ve used. Just saying.” Stefan commented.

“Oh,thanks for the updates,Steffy.” Damon mocked with an eye roll. Caroline bite her lower lips and exhaled loudly. She then said,

“Don’t you think if the Mikaelsons knew about Ara having a major dislike towards you and Bonnie,they would do something? I’m just afraid that she’ll be used against us or I don’t know,Klaus don’t like any threats coming towards his beloved doppelganger,he might..you know. Even though Ara is not a witch,let alone a vampire,she can be very,I mean very dangerous. You of all people would know that clearly.”

“Caroline,” Elena sighed after a long contemplation. “Arabella will be not involved into our situation. I’m okay if she wanted to make my life miserable because I probably deserve that but she’s not going to be tangled up in vampire,werewolf,witchy stuff. She better live as she is now. Normal. Not knowing probably is the best for her.  I lost too many people already. I can’t afford any more loss.”

The blonde vampire stood and stormed before leaving the house, “You know how selfish you sounded now,Elena? Not knowing might get her killed! And,you know what,you already lost her five years ago.”