Damon pulls on his jacket as he makes his way down the stairs of the Gilbert house. He'd ended up falling asleep in Daphne's bed. It wasn't his intention to spend the night, and yet, he slept through most of the night without incident. He's not exactly had reason to sleep soundly. He puts it down to Daphne and her bedroom. There is something about it and her that's comforting. Though waking up alone was actually rather disappointing. His eyes find Daphne, sitting on the floor. She's got her little chemistry equipment set up again, the room almost completely dark except for a few scattered candles around the room. Those magnified goggles over her eyes as she focuses on what she's going. Damon moves closer to her when he reaches the bottom of the stairs.
"What are you...?" He starts. But the look she sends his way stops him.
"Shush" She hisses a little, he gives her a look. "I need to concentrate" He mocks zipping up his lips and she goes back to whatever she is working on. Using her wand, she pulls a sliver of blood from a beaker and slides it into a vial. Damon now realises what she is doing. She's gone through that book to find something to work for Stefan. He is more interested now. He moves closer, careful of the bottles and jars littering the floor. She sets the vial into a sort of vice before looking around, plucking a bottle from the table. She pulls the cork and takes a pinch of dried herbs from inside, sprinkles it into the vial of blood. It catches fire. She huffs. Annoyed. She pushes her magnified goggles up and rubs at her eyes.
"You set the blood on fire?"
"It's not meant to do that" She defends as she waves her hand over the flames, putting it out. She then sighs and looks back at the book.
"How long have you been up?" He asks, she shrugs a little, her finger going over the spell that failed, trying to figure out why it failed and what she has to change.
"Long enough" She whispers and then pinches the bridge of her nose. "Not long enough" She corrects herself and lets out a tired breath. This is going to take time. Time that they might not have. Klaus could be on them at any minute. Stefan could turn on them at any minute. Damon touches his jacket pocket feeling his phone vibrating within. He pulls his cell phone from his pocket and checks the text that comes in.
"Elena and Stefan are meeting up at the boarding house" He reads. "They want to talk through our plan with Mikael"
"We have a plan?" She asks, surprised. He had told her that Mikael was onboard but she didn't think that meant that a whole plan was in place.
"Not yet" He argues and she looks at him. "We'll come up with one though" He assures her and then motions for her to get up. "So come on...you're coming with me..."
"But I'm not finished" She argues. "I haven't figured it out yet" He crouches next to her.
"We can deal with Klaus" He points out. "Today...." She lets out a breath. "Then deal with Stefan, tomorrow" She looks up at him and then sighs. "It can wait one day" He closes her spellbook and she pulls a face.
......
Daphne stands next to Damon in the boarding house. Mikael lingers close by. Elena and Stefan stood with them. They've been at things for a while now trying to come up with a plan to get Klaus back to town so Mikael can deal with him. To put him down for good. Without him around they are going to have a little more breathing room to fix Stefan. To fix everything else going on around them. She shivers a little, wishing she'd thought to put on a jacket or something but she figured that as they were only coming up to the boarding house that it wouldn't be an issue.
"Want me to light the fire?" Damon asks with a smirk, she gives him a small glare, but he moves to do it anyway.
"No, it's okay" She stops him. "I got it" She holds out her wand towards the fire. "Incendio" She casts and a small flame erupts from the tip of her wand and into the fire, lights up, filling the room with warmth.
"Jeez, you witches, so lazy" Damon teases a little, she smirks and shakes her head, he nudges her before drawing an arm around her waist to pull her closer to him. She glances at his face but he's now paying attention to Stefan and Elena. His fingers are soft on her side though, touching the sliver of skin there. Warm against her skin.
"Okay, so let's say that Mikael followed Elena in here." Stefan offers. "He tried to grab her, so he could use her as bait"
"And you what? Vervained him?" Elena asks.
"No" Damon argues. "Sabrina here" He motions to Daphne at his side. "Hit him with that...." He pauses. "What's that one called?" He asks her. "The one that knocks people out?"
"Stupify" She offers, he hums and nods.
"Or that other one....the one you first used on me" She smirks a little and nods.
"Oh...Petrificus Totalus, that would work too" She assures him. "Full body bind would parallelize him long enough to get the dagger in. Logic is good"
"Yeah, that one. She hit him with a Petrificus Totalus" Damon attempts, Daphne smirks a little and he pinches her side. "....And then we discovered that he had a dagger" Damon continues.
"Which he planned to use on Rebekah, but instead..." Elena adds.
"We drove it through his heart." Stefan finishes.
"And what happens when he asks to see Mikael's body?" Elena counters. Daphne hums in agreement. Klaus has proven that he is far from stupid and he is very much going to want to see the dead body for himself.
"Good point!" Damon agrees. "You, my brother, have been compelled to do what Klaus says. So the idea is to lure him back here and kill him... the last thing we need is you getting tripped up and tongue-tied"
"Well, don't look at me. I am just in charge of getting him back here" Stefan points out.
"Klaus is smart" Daphne counters. "If we tell him that Mikael is dead, he'll want proof"
"Then I shall be dead" Mikael agrees, moving closer to the four of them. Damon tightens his arm around Daphne.
"What if he wants to see you in person?" Elena counters.
"Well, that means our plan is working" Mikael assures them. "Klaus will absolutely want to see my body. You lure him here, and I will kill him"
"With what? Those daggers won't work on him" Stefan argues.
"Well, I'm in possession of a stake fashioned from the wood of the ancient white oak tree" Mikael informs them. "The one that left these ashes when it burned"
"Where is it?" Stefan asks as Mikael is dipping a dagger in the ashes of the white oak tree.
"Not here" Mikael answers. "The knowing of its location is my insurance policy"
"Against what?" Stefan pushes.
"You leaving this in my heart" Mikael answers. "You see, a vampire can't dagger an original without dying. So...it falls to you...or your sister" Mikael hands over the dagger to Elena. Elena stares at him and then looks at Daphne.
"It's okay if you can't do it, Elena" Daphne assures her. "I can do it" Elena nods a little, just to tell her sister that she can't do it. Daphne holds up her hand and twitches her fingers, the dagger lifts from Mikael's palm and straight into his chest. "There...all done" Mikael drops to the floor. Elena lets out a breath, relaxing slightly but she is feeling rather boxed in.
"I need some air," Elena tells them before heading out of the house. Daphne watches her go. She hates that Elena has stumbled into the supernatural. That any of this is happening to her. Damon's hand shifts against her waist, reminding her that it is right there. She lets out a breath and turns to him.
"Are you done feeling me up?" She asks him, he smirks back at her.
"Nope," He answers, pulling her closer to him, his hand against the small of her back. "Just...take any and all opportunities"
"Okay," She tells him. His eyes flicker to her lips as she bites her lower lip. "But...In front of your brother?" He draws his hand up her back.
"I'm okay to watch" Stefan points out. Damon shoots a glare over Daphne's shoulder and then releases her. She chuckles and pulls away from him. She pats his chest and then walks away. Damon glares harder at Stefan. It's not specifically about Stefan. It's about people getting in the way. They can flirt and get close, oh they keep getting so close to doing something. And then someone, something, or just life keeps getting in the way. He's getting impatient. About to snap and just do it. Just to get it over with. To get out of this sexual frustration limbo with her. Once he knows what she tastes like. Once he knows how she feels against him. He'll know what to do with himself. To do with this. All of this.