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Post by Erika Mirazida on Jul 12, 2010 23:03:14 GMT -5
Erika was pacing back and forth, and not your average garden variety pacing either. She could have put a hole in the floor. She had the device in her hand, how she got it isn't a pretty story. That didn't matter, what mattered was that she had it in her posetion and no one knew about it except her. She could use it to figure out who was Elena and who was Katherine, or she could distory it. What was she going to do? Could sh etrust Damon? Since Katherine was back, she could perswade him into telling her about the device. She looked at the front door, hoping someone would come inside.
She looked into the fireplace, then at the device. No, she thought, Damon and Stefan deserve to know. She heard someone stop behind her, Erika didn't look at the person, "It's about bloody time you go home! I have a crisis that I can't fix! I don't know what to do!" she said, well yelled.
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Post by Damon Salvatore on Jul 12, 2010 23:18:55 GMT -5
Damon frowned and held his hands up, palms out, as if in surrender. "Erika, chill," he said, crossing the room deliberately slowly and pouring a glass of amber liquid before settling himself on the couch and looking up at her in expectation.
The irritation was plain in her face, he had expected that. what he hadn't expected, though, was the worry that was evident beneath the annoyance. He sat forward and set the glass down on an end table. "What's wrong?"
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Post by Erika Mirazida on Jul 12, 2010 23:37:10 GMT -5
Erika turned to face him and showed him what was in her hands. She was honestly scared of it, "The Device", it to her was more scary than Edward Cullen. Although, he was scary in the "I'm a wannabe vampire way" not, "hey I'm made to help kill you". She didn't let him touch it though, she wanted to distroy it more than anything.
"I got it off of John's dead body. It was a gross task, but I got it. I didn't want it to fall into the wrong hands again. I was afraid that Isobel may have come back and wanted it, so I took it and I don't want anyone to know about it." she said, sitting next to him, "I'm scared Damon, terrified." she said quietly.
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Post by Damon Salvatore on Jul 12, 2010 23:45:22 GMT -5
Damon stared for a long minute at the device Erika held in her hands, and it took everything he had not to jump up and back away from her, futile as the gesture would have been. He took another minute to recover his usual aplomb.
"So, is that all of it? You have all the pieces including the centre dial piece?" he asked casually, standing back up with his hands in his pockets. He didn't really think she'd use it, at least he told himself that he didn't, but there had been more times than he could count that she had threatened to stake him.
Her words sounded plausible, though, and she looked more frightened than murderous. "It's okay, just let me have it and I'll dispose of it for you, hey?"
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Post by Erika Mirazida on Jul 13, 2010 0:23:03 GMT -5
Erika watched him stare at it, probably just as afraid of it as she was. She watched how he was looking at her warily. He was probably thinking that she may use it, whish she wouldn't. "Damon, I have threatened to stake you in the past, but after what we've been through, those feelings have disappeared." she said quietly, "Yeah I have all the pieces with me." she said,
She watched him closely, "I'm not giving it to anyone. I may not want to kill you, but I stil don't fully trust you with it. I'm going to give it to Nina... I think..." she sounded just as unsure as her sentance. She didn't know if she wanted to get rid of it at all.
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Post by Damon Salvatore on Jul 13, 2010 0:40:52 GMT -5
"Yeah, okay, that would be good," Damon reached out his hands to her. "Give it here, I'll make sure she gets it."
He had intended to give the damnable thing to Nina anyway, he figured that it might be one of the keys to whatever it was she was trying to unearth in Jonathan Gilbert's journals. Plus she had said something about wanting to try and fix whatever the hell it was that was wrong with her shields.
"She said that the frequency that thing operates on acted like an electromagnetic pulse on her, she asked me yesterday if I knew what had happened to it." He frowned a little. "Just out of curiousity, you don't still have that one journal of his that you borrowed from Jeremy Gilbert a little whole back, do you?"
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Post by Stefan Salvatore on Jul 16, 2010 0:01:17 GMT -5
Stefan, who had been watching this entire exchange, walked into the room and looked suspiciously at his brother and the device that Erika was in the process of handing over to him.
"What nefarious little plot are you hatching now, Damon? No, Erika, don't let him have that thing. You'd be better off to just drop it and crush it with your heel." He couldn't help himself, opposing whatever Damon wanted had become such a habit over the course of their lives that it wouldn't matter if his brother was campaigning to save the world, out of sheer obstinance, Stefan would have to object. "What are you up to?" he repeated.
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Post by Damon Salvatore on Jul 16, 2010 18:40:05 GMT -5
Damon glared at Stefan and took the device out of Erika's hands before she could think to snatch it back out of his reach. "Stef, don't you have something beter to do with your time, like, oh I don't know, make sure Katherine hasn't eaten your girlfriend and taken her place?"
He looked at the pieces of the device he now held, shoved them into separate pockets of his jacket, and looked at Erika. "Don't worry," he told her. "Despite my baby brother's opinion to the contrary, I'm not 'up to' anything this time, I just want to get these into safe hands, like I said."
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Post by Erika Mirazida on Jul 17, 2010 13:26:54 GMT -5
Erika lookd up at Stefan as he came into the room, "Suprisingly enough Stefan, I trust him. I know he's not going to give it to someone other than who I want it to go to and I don't think he'll use it himself, after learning the effects of what happens when you use it." Erika hardly had time to react before Damon took the device out of her hands. She looked at him then covered his hands with her own, "I'm trustign you with this Damon." she said, her voice as gentle as ever.
Erika looked up at Stefan again, her hands stil covering Damon's, "He's helping me Stef, that's what he's up to." Erika looked back at Damon, remembering his earlier question, "I still have it, but why do you want it?"
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Post by Stefan Salvatore on Jul 17, 2010 14:00:10 GMT -5
Stefan walked over to Erika and Damon, shaking his head. "Have you not learned yet that he can't be trusted? He opened the tomb and let the vampires out, remember? He uses everyone around him for whatever he wants, he even killed Lexi for no reason other than it suited his plans at the moment!" He returned Damon's glare. "Give me that thing, I'm going to destroy it."
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Post by Erika Mirazida on Jul 17, 2010 14:03:59 GMT -5
Erika was now irrated as well as pissed off at Stefan, "You know what. F*** you you miserable prick! What the hell is your problem!" she said. she wasn't one to use bad language or anything, she was just mad. And a stressed out Erika, plus a mad one, well, it isn't pretty to be around her when she's like that, "He's helping me you moron! Why the hell would he use the device when it will harm him, no matter where he is! I have doubts he's going to give it to someone who could use it!"
She was back to pacing now, as well as in one of her moods, "You know... can't believe...he's changed! And you... ugh... if you....shouldn't have saved him!" she went on doing her I can't for full sentances thing that she does oh so well.
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Post by Damon Salvatore on Jul 17, 2010 14:10:12 GMT -5
Damon raised an eyebrow, surprised both at her language and her defense of him since neither was something she was in the habit of.
He deliberately turned his back on his brother and put his hands on Erika's shoulders, waiting until she looked up at him. "Hey, it's okay. As much as I hate to admit it, he's not... entirely... wrong." Far be it from Damon to admit that he'd spent the last hundred years being a pain in the ass and worse. "Then again I never claimed to be perfect, even though I pretty much am!" he grinned at her. "Thanks, Little Er."
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Post by Erika Mirazida on Jul 17, 2010 14:14:25 GMT -5
Erika had reclaimed what little dignaty she had left. She felt a tiny bitbad for blowing up on him like that, but he got what he deserved. Erike looked into Damon's blue eyes, remembering how pretty they were. Erika laughed, "Maybe with your looks..." she admitted. Her lips weren't far from his, and since well, he didn't technically belong to anyone, she couldn't resist. Erika leaned up and kissed him, it suprised her quite a lot. She pulled away, "Sorry... spur of the moment..." she uttered red as a tomato.
"Sorry Stefan..." she said quietly, still red.
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Post by Stefan Salvatore on Jul 17, 2010 14:22:35 GMT -5
Stefan watched her kiss Damon in absolute stunned amazement, he hadn't ever suspected that she might still have feelings for him.
He grinned at her when she turned bright red and stammered her apology. "You apologizing for freaking out on me or for kissing him?" he asked, breaking the tension in the room. "Either way, forget it. It's been a tough few days for all of us."
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Post by Erika Mirazida on Jul 17, 2010 14:46:11 GMT -5
Erika burried her face into Damon's chest. She was laughing, "I'm appologizing for spazzing on you Stef." she said, muffled by Damon's shirt. Stefan was right, it had been a rough couple of days for everyone. Still... she shook off the thought, he said forget about it, therefore she was going to forget about it.
"sorry Damon... like I said, spur of...the...mo...ment." she sort of said before bursting intoa fit of giggles.
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