I started putting some clothes away and to turn and see my father leaning against the door frame
"Where the hell you been?" I asked turning around
" Aw, you know, being held against my will, shot in the head, now I can't find Elena." he said walking into the room
" How was your evening? Anything out of the ordinary happen?"
"What a minute. What do you mean you can't find Elena?" I said an amused look on my face
" I mean, she's not picking up her phone, she's not in her dorm, she's nowhere in this house, which leads me to believe that
Dr. Creepy Ken-doll has her somewhere." He said and I nodded " Are you talking about the Whitmore bio teacher?
"Yeah, the one that operated on vampires during business hours, yeah, that one. Put your hero hair on, Sale. Let's go get Elena. "
he started to walk away and I start laughing
"What?" he asked turning around
"You honestly think I want back in this doppelganger business again?" I asked
"Come one Sale I need you"
"Call Uncle Stefan" I said folding my arms over my chest "I told you awhile ago I was done with helping doplegangers"
Turning around I put more clothes into my drawer
My father turned me around "Salem if you help me with this I wont ask you for help anymore"
"Okay lets go" I said sighing and he smiled and we went to walk out of my room and the house
"You just said you don't know where she is." I said
Dad turned around and said " I don't, which means we're gonna have to find us some leverage. So come on."
We flashed to Whitmore College Aaron is sitting on a couch, headphones on, writing on a notebook.
Daddy sits next to him and pulls his left earphone off his ear. Aaron looks at him.
"Pop quiz. " Aaron looks around scared.
"So your girlfriend's taken by a mad scientist. Now, do you:
A, get a new girlfriend; B, call the police; or C, kill someone close to the mad scientist?"
Aaron stands up to run. Dad stays seated on the couch, smirking. I however meet Aaron right next to the couch.
" Sit." I said forcing him down
I sat down across from them in a chair
" I have no idea where Wes took her." Aaron defended
"Well, they're not at his lab, so where else could he hide a vampire?" I asked
" I'm sorry. Am I supposed to know who you are?" He asked me and I looked down and sat back with a 'huh'
" That's my daughter Salem, but I'd watch your tone with her because she's kind of in the midst of a psychotic break."
"I'm sorry. I'm what?" I asked glaring at my father
"How are you not dead? I shot you." Aaron interrupted me
" Well, because you went for the head. You got to go for the heart." Father smacked the back of his head
" Go for the heart next time. Now, where's Elena?"
" I have no idea. All that Wes told me was to go about my life as usual." Aaron said
"We're gonna call Wes, and you're gonna tell him that if he doesn't give us Elena the next experiment that he conducts
it's gonna be sewing your arms back on." He threatened him and I sighed
"You want to give me a little back story as to how you know one another?"
" Aaron is Aaron Whitmore, and he comes from a very long line of vampire-probing, blood-testing, organ-removing freaks
called Augustine."
" Why do you know this?" I asked as I followed him
" Because I was their test subject in the '50s." My father said stopping "What do you mean test subject?" I asked
"Meaning I donated my body to science except I was alive and it was against my will." He told me and I rolled my eyes
" Wait. Hold on a minute. How do I not know about this?"I asked
"Don't get all guilt-ridden, Stefan, on me. Salem. We were on the outs back then, and by the time it was over, you know, it was over." He started walking away when Aaron spoke up
" Why don't you finish the rest of the story, Damon?"
I turned towards Aaron " I don't recall saying that you could talk. " Turning to my father " Did I say that he could talk?"
"I don't remember anything."
"I didn't think so." I said and Aaron gulped
Entering a building my father stopped us
"Which one is it?"
" It's right here." Aaron said and guided us to a classroom
The classroom is empty except for someone sitting on the back, with their feet up against the backrest of the chair on front.
"21051." the man spoke something about him was familular
"Enzo?" My father called out
Enzo stands up, his eyes still locked on my father
" It's been a while, mate."
Enzo starts walking towards the front of the room. Looking at my father he looks concerned.
" Who the hell are you?" I asked folding my arms
" Lorenzo, but my friends call me Enzo. Ah. Kidding. I don't have any friends." Enzo offers his hand to me but I don't shake it. Enzo scoffs. " Enzo's another Augustine vampire. Our cells were next to each other. So we're here to meet somebody -- Wes Maxfield. You know him?"
" That's your first question for me? Not "How are you? How'd you survive in that fire I left you to die in?"
" Uh, does somebody want to tell me what the hell is going on here?"
"I'd love to. Have a seat. Been waiting 70 years to tell my story. "
He motions us to sit on the classroom chairs while he sits on the teacher's desk.
"Before you do that Aaron can I see your phone?"
Aaron handed his phone to me and I went to the hallway as I clicked on Wes's contact
"Aaron."
" Errrt. wrong person Doctor crazy Where's Elena?" I asked
" Who's this?"
" We have Aaron, and we're trying to decide how to kill him."
"Funny. I have Elena, and I'm wondering how she'll function without her cerebral cortex. Touch him, and you'll never see her again."
"That threat works both ways." I said and he hung up on me
Walking back into the class room My father walks up to me
" He's not sending her." I said
" Tragic. Can I continue my story now, please?"
"Uh. Family time. Okay" I said and made a shoo motion to Enzo
" Doesn't he know we have Aaron?"
"He doesn't care. He's willing to risk it."
" What? Let me to talk to him! He'll listen to me." Aaron butted in " What part of "he doesn't care" are you not registering?"
Enzo got pissed off of being ignored, makes a scene to get attention by ripping of a classroom chair from the floor and throwing it out the window.
" Where were we? Uh, ah, right. I was telling my story, and you were all politely listening. Huh?" he said walking to the front again "So I'd given Damon all of my blood ration so he'd have the strength to escape and save me in the process. Our plan began perfectly, didn't it?"
"I was waiting in the cage for him to release me, waiting for my friend, my cellmate, the only soul with whom I'd connected with in all those years of captivity."
" Then a fire starts, burns out of control, but Damon just can't get the damn cage open."
"He looks me in the eye as if he doesn't even recognize me, turns around, saves himself, leaving me to die."
"Well, you didn't die, obviously." I snarked
"No. Unfortunately I lived. I was spared by one of the scientists so I could spend another 50 years on a table being opened and closed. Now that we've all been acquainted, I'm gonna find something to wet my whistle. "
"You didn't tell me about him." I said to my father but he just says "it was the 1950s. I'm supposed to remember every moment of my life? " he suddenly changed the subject
" Do you want to kill Aaron, or should I?"
"This guy was your cellmate for 5 years, you left him to die, he comes back, and you're completely unfazed?
"Fine. I will. " he said as he walks towards Aaron "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Wes gave me a bunch of files on my family history. They're in my dorm, ok? Maybe there's something in there you need, a name, I mean, another lab."
" That's a timely revelation."
"yah. Well, you know, he's not gonna help me, why should I help him?
"I don't like you, I don't like your family, I don't like you messing up my relationship. If you're lying, I'm gonna take my thumbs, and I'm gonna gouge out your sad little eyes out of your sad little head!"
"yeah. Well, you know, he's not gonna help me, why should I help him?"
"I don't like you, I don't like your family, I don't like you messing up my relationship. If you're lying, I'm gonna take my thumbs, and I'm gonna gouge out your sad little eyes out of your sad little head!" my father said as Enzo walks in with two bottles of booze. "Ah. It's frightening what you can find on campus these days."
I rolled my eyes "Knock yourself out. We're going with plan "b."
pouring himself a drink Enzo said "Damon's not. Damon's staying right here. He knows all my secrets, so he knows how ornery I can get when I don't get my way."
"Call me if you find anything, kill him if you don't. and be careful"
I nodded and said " Let's go."
When me and Aaron went to his room Aaron spoke "All the files of my family history are in here." He went and looks under the bed. I crossed my arms groaning " Hurry up." Next thing I knew Aaron pulls a gun from under the bed, but when he stands up to point it at me, I had super-sped behind Aaron. I then super-sped pushing Aaron against the wall and making him drop the gun. Grabbing him by the neck. "Is this all a lie, huh? If you want me to kill you, I will kill you. Do not test me." I spat struggling to speak Aaron said " Do it. I'm dead already. Damon's been planning my death since before I was born."
" What are you talking about?"
" Damon left out the best part of the Augustine story, the part after he escaped." After 2 more seconds of holding him by the neck, I decide to let go of Aaron so he can explain himself. Aaron starts to cough. " Talk."
Aaron took a breathe " It wasn't enough for Damon to kill the doctors who tortured him. He had to torture their families and their future families. He spent the last 60 years killing every one of my relatives except he's a psychopath. He leaves one alive so that they can continue the family line so that he can destroy future generations of innocent people. So go ahead and do it, kill me because I don't want to give Damon the satisfaction, so do it. " He closes his eyes. and yelled " Do it!"
" You know, not all of us are like my father."
I stars to walk towards the door to leave when Aaron open his eyes. "Salem?" turning around and walks back in. I see Aaron pull files and papers from under his bed. "This is everything Wes gave me on Augustine. I saw Elena's last name on a few pages. Maybe it will help." Aaron said holding them out to me I grab the files from Aaron's hands and open the first one and look inside, then I look at Aaron. "I know where she is" I said
"Aaron stay here and don't leave for room until tomorrow" I compelled him and he nodded I flashed out of the room leaving the papers on the dresser as I then arrived at a secret building
"Elena!" I yelled out "Salem!" I herd her weakly yell back
I flashed down the stairs " I'm right here. I'm here."
" Oh, God. Ohh." I said
" I'm here." Elena said
I walk slowly towards Elena and see Wes on the floor, along with the full syringe. I then rip off the braces that held Elena to the gurney, freeing her.
" Come here." I said as I grab Elena as she is too weak to even get up. " Oh. You're ok. I got you. I got you. I got you. I got you." I whispered to her
" Get me out of here."
"Come on. Come on."
"Wait, wait, wait."
She looks back at the table and grabs her dad's journal. Then we left