The Vampire Diaries: Trinity

Chapter Thirteen: Children of the Damned

At the boarding house, Trinity sits on the couch; reading.

Damon walks over to her and takes a seat at the end of the couch, sitting her feet in his lap. "So what was the big deal with you last night?"

"Stefan didn't tell you?" Trinity asks, not looking away from the book.

"Tell me what?"

"Long story short, I've started a rare process to becoming immortal. This process however, sucks; as it makes me over-protective, over-emotional, and at some point; genuinely crazy."

"Sucks for you." Damon says.

"Indeed."

"So...how long until you become immortal?"

"It could take months...years even." She tells him. "It all depends on the person."

He shrugs before standing up. "I'm going to wake Stefan and Elena, coming?"

"No." She shakes her head. "If I step one foot into that room before it's aired out, the only thing I'm gonna be smelling is..." Her face scrunches in disgust. "Them."

"Oh yeah." Damon says. "You have that keen sense of smell that's useless in large crowds." Trinity rolls her eyes. He walks past her, patting her head. "Be back in minute."

Stefan and Elena are snuggled up in bed. Elena awakens and Stefan wakes up shortly after this and kisses Elena on the cheek as she pulls his arm tighter around her. "Mmm. Good morning." She says.

"I could get used to this."

Damon walks through the door. "Rise and shine, sleepyheads."

Elena and Stefan both sit up, startled at Damon's presence at the end of Stefan's bed. Both of them pull the sheets up to their chins, covering up any parts they may not want Damon to see.

"Damon! Please!" Elena says.

"What are you doing?" Stefan asks.

"Oh, stop being smutty." Damon teases.

Stefan pulls the sheets further up on Elena, making sure she's covered up properly. "Seriously, get out of here!"

"If I see something I haven't seen before, I'll throw a dollar at it. Now listen, we have some very important business to discuss."

"And it has to be right now?" Elena asks.

"Well, we have lots to do, now that we're all friends and working toward a common goal." He says. Stefan and Elena exchange looks. Damon gets up from the end of the bed and turns around to face them. "So, in order to open the tomb, we need to find the journal to get the grimoire to undo the spells. First things first-since you are Elena Gilbert, you're on journal duty."

"Since when am I helping?"

"Well, Stefan's helping, and you've taken up residence in Stefan's bed, ergo..."

"You don't have to do anything that you don't want to do." Stefan tells her.

"I'll look for it tonight." Elena lies back down in the bed, pulling the sheets over her face.

"Good." Damon smiles.

"How do we know that this journal will hold the location of the grimoire?" Stefan asks. "We're really going to take the word of this vampire? He seemed like a bit of a dimwit."

"In lieu of any other options..."

Elena suddenly pulls the sheets down and sits up. "OK, what exactly is a grimoire, anyway?"