"One Drop and You're Done"

Chapter 5:

Disclaimer: I don't own the characters of Vampire Diaries or of Supernatural; those belong to their original creators. The way it's all stringed together is of my making. No profit is being made out of this (*sigh* unfortunately). Any recognizable Supernatural aspects/dialogue comes from [6x05 – "Live Free or Twihard"]. Any recognizable Vampire Diaries aspects/dialogue comes from [4x01 – "Growing Pains"].

Summary: While Dean Winchester was tracking down the vampire that turned him, Pastor Young's men captured him while thinking that he was one of Klaus' hybrids. Will Dean escape and get the blood he needs in time before he unwillingly condemns himself for eternity? Could this mistake result in something good for those that Dean meets during his captivity?

Time Frame: Middle of VD's 4x01 ("Growing Pains"; just after Elena gets put into a cell) and middle of SPN's 6x05 ("Live Free or Twihard"; just after Dean leaves to go after the vampire that turned him)

Changes: The SPN vampire case takes place in Virginia, not in Illinois.

A/N #1: Happy Birthday Sam Winchester! Did you watch SPN 8x21 & VD 4x21? Great progression for both shows! Now get to reading...I'll talk more at the end! I apologize if the conversation seems odd for Dean or if the pace seemed fast...it would be explained at the end.

A/N #2: Additional comments at the end to avoid spoilers. MAJOR spoiler for VD Season 4!

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THEN:

Sam and Samuel looked to one another, yet they both couldn't deny that Damon made a point about the human hosts.

And Damon noticed this. "I rest my case." He uncrossed his arms and made his way to the room's fridge to grab the cooler of blood bags from inside. "Now if you'll excuse me, I've got a phone call I need to make." He announced before he walked out of the motel room.

He needed to check in on Elena and he needed to have a proper drink away from judging eyes.

NOW:

Dean walked out of the bathroom after cleaning himself off. He not only scrummed the dried blood from his skin but he felt like he had to rinse and clean himself off again as if being a vampire had left a residue on him that needed to be washed away. He could only wash away so much.

"Hey," Sam greeted, breaking Dean from his stupor, "So, what'd you see?"

Samuel stopped his packing and looked between the brothers.

Dean's brow furrowed. "What?" He questioned as he made his way to his own bag.

"In the nest…what'd you see?" Sam clarified as he kept his eagerness in check.

"Uh," Dean scratched the back of his head, "well, I'm still trying to work through it, but, uh…I'm pretty sure they're not figuring anything out on their own. They're getting their orders from the top…where to go next…everything." He explained as he finished packing up his things.

Sam and Samuel shared a look. "Top, as in…?"

"Their alpha." Dean finished for Samuel. "At least, that's what I think it is. They've got some sort of psychic thing happening. He sends them, I don't know, messages?" He elaborated yet his confusion was still evident. The memories were still a bit foggy for Dean.

"Saying what?" Sam asked before finishing up his packing.

"Honestly? Recruitment drive," Dean confessed with a shrug, "Their alpha is building an army."

Samuel sighed. "Well, that's comforting."

Dean's eyes shifted between his brother and grandfather. "That's not the worst."

Sam frowned at his brother's words. "Then what is?"

"We don't scare them anymore." Dean confessed grimly as he let the words sink in for Sam and Samuel.

Before anyone could respond, the motel's door opened to reveal Damon who was still holding his confiscated cooler. Although the hunters didn't know that a few blood bags were now missing from the cooler.

"Hope I'm not interrupting or anything…but we do need to go." The vampire pointed out as he pointed towards the exit.

Dean nodded. "Yeah. Where'd you go?"

Damon held up his phone, "Just checking in." He smirked yet Dean noticed a darker tint in the vampire's eyes.

"Everything good?" Dean cocked an eyebrow at Damon.

Damon shrugged, "Like it was before."

"Alright, let's get going." Dean grabbed his bag before he followed Sam out of the room. Dean wasn't going to push Damon to talk, something the vampire was grateful for.

Just before they passed, Sam and Damon stared at each other before Sam walked away, which caused Damon to frown.

Before Samuel got the chance to follow his grandsons out, Damon stepped in his way and stared at him, like he tried to do with Sam.

The last thing Samuel noticed was the dilation of Damon's eyes before his mind went fuzzy.

Damon smirked before he got to work.

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Once outside, Sam and Dean split off for a brief moment since Sam had some of Samuel's bags with him that he needed to drop off.

This gave Dean the opportunity to call Lisa as he made his way towards the Impala. Unfortunately for the hunter, his girlfriend wasn't answering his calls. Dean wasn't even sure he could call Lisa his girlfriend anymore after what happened during his last visit to her when he was a vampire living in what he believed were his final moments.

Before Dean dialed Lisa's number for the third time, he noticed Damon was leaning against the Impala's trunk.

Dean looked back towards the motel before he looked to Damon again. "That was fast."

Damon shrugged; once he was finished with Samuel, he had used his super-speed to get to the Impala before Dean did. "I needed to talk to you…alone."

"What about?" Dean asked as he headed for the trunk.

Damon got out of Dean's way as he unlocked the trunk. "Did you give Sam any vervain?"

"No, I only had what you…" Dean trailed off after he unlocked the trunk and revealed the bundle of vervain that was stashed inside. Dean was stumped; the only vervain he had was in the black bracelet that Damon had soaked in vervain before he had a witch place a protection charm on it so that the vervain would stay (so Dean didn't have to take it off when he showered or so that no blood or dirt could stain it).

Damon gave Dean a pointed look while the latter's attention was on the piece of paper on top of the vervain. He flipped the piece of paper over, only to show to Damon that it had 'from Castiel' written on it.

Once that small mystery was solved, Dean tossed his bag into the space beside the vervain (Damon placed the cooler beside it) before he closed the trunk. "So why bring up Sam and vervain?"

Damon crossed his arms as he looked at Dean.

It took a moment for Dean to get the silent message. He sighed as he rubbed a hand over his face. "Did you try to compel my brother?" He wanted to be angry but Dean couldn't find it in him to be angry.

"Try being the operative word Dean. Does he know about my kind?"

Dean shook his head. "We haven't tangled with your kind since we started hunting together," his brow furrowed together as if a thought had just came to him, "Though, I don't know if he encountered any with Samuel."

Damon scoffed. "I doubt it. The old man would be on vervain if he knew about my kind."

Dean snorted at Damon's nickname for Samuel before Dean gave the vampire an expectant look because he just knew that Damon would have checked somehow.

Damon groaned when Dean didn't let up on his expectant look. "Oh don't give me that look. I just made him forget about me."

Dean rolled his eyes. "And you couldn't compel Sam?"

Damon shook his head. He was still trying to figure out what Sam's inability to be compelled without vervain could mean. He had a theory yet he didn't like it and if Dean knew, that would worry him even more.

"Well I didn't give him anything so…what does that mean?" Dean gulped as he tried to hide his worries for his brother yet Damon saw it. It was a similar look the vampire had when Stefan was truly in danger.

Before either older brother could say anything more on the subject, Sam interrupted with his bag in hand. He stopped by the passenger side of the Impala before he looked between Dean and Damon, his eyes lingering on Damon for a bit. "What are you talking about?"

Dean quickly held up his phone to Sam, "Just telling Damon about my dilemma with Lisa."

Sam nodded. "Did you get a hold of her?"

"No."

Sam sighed. "I'm sorry." To an outsider, it would look like Sam was sorry for his brother yet Dean knew better because it was his brother and Damon knew better because he's been around people for over a century. They both knew that something was off.

Dean cleared his throat as he moved to the driver's side of the Impala. "Yeah but at least you've got my back." He stopped and looked over towards his brother, "No matter what happens, I can always count on you. Right, Sammy?"

"Yeah, of course Dean," Sam stated with a reassuring smile before he opened the door and got inside the Impala.

Dean looked to Damon.

The vampire gave the hunter an uncertain shrug, not able to distinguish anything from Sam's response, as he made his way towards the backseat's door.

Dean sighed before he got into the driver's seat. The exchange was short enough that Sam never noticed it.

Once Damon got inside, Dean started the car and headed towards Mystic Falls.

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In the Mikaelson Mansion, Klaus (who was back in his original body) was packing up his small supply of Elena's human blood when a bloody and messy Rebekah rushed in.

"How dare you save Caroline over me!" she shouted. Her anger increased when her brother didn't spare her a look.

"Hello brother. Thought you were dead. So pleased you're not." Klaus mocked as he continued with his careful packing. Those blood bags were all Klaus had left if he wanted to create more hybrids.

"You left me!" Not only was Rebekah furious that her brother led her to believe that he was dead, he ignored her when he rescued Caroline instead of herself from Pastor Young's men (while he was possessing Tyler's body).

Klaus rolled his eyes. "I only had time to save one of you and you can't be killed."

"That is where you are wrong." Rebekah declared with her hands placed on her hips.

Klaus turned and narrowed his glare at his sister. "What are you talking about?"

"I not only witnessed Elena being turned back into a human," Rebekah gritted her teeth, "but the very thing that did it threatened me, threatened our family, to stay away from the doppelganger and her family."

Klaus' nose scrunched up. "Elena's human?" His mind raced with possibilities.

Rebekah's jaw dropped. "Is that all you heard?"

"That's impossible." He mumbled to himself, his eyes were more focused on the ground than on his sister.

"You're unbelievable." She screeched as she threw her hands up. "I tell you that there was a threat made against our family and the only thing you heard me say was about your precious doppelganger."

"What thing turned her back?" He looked up once she was done.

Rebekah faltered. "What?"

Klaus' eyes narrowed; he was starting to get impatient. "You heard me Rebekah, what thing turned Elena back into a human?"

"An angel by the name of Castiel," if she wasn't watching her brother, she wouldn't have seen his irritation turn to shock before it quickly shifted to anger.

"Damn it!" He started to pace as he ran his hand through his short hair.

Rebekah gulped, it was rare that she would see Klaus unravel like this. "What is it?"

"Over the centuries, I came across some lore that stated that angels hadn't roamed the Earth since before the creation of humans." He began as he remembered his discoveries over the centuries. Usually it was Klaus and Elijah that wanted to learn more about the supernatural world while Rebekah and Kol enjoyed having fun together in their shenanigans.

Rebekah remained silent. She always believed that angels were just something people talked about to give people faith in something (like how stories of the devil was meant to instill fear into people).

"It was said to be forbidden for the angels to take on a human vessel." He looked to her before he continued. "Yet only under the most extreme of circumstances would they show themselves." He hid his fear from her. He would never let her know how he thought that angels could be the beings to end him, end them. While it was just a theory that he's kept secret, it was one that Klaus was not willing to test out.

The message was clear to Rebekah though. Angels coming down to Earth wasn't a good sign. "Then what could be so extreme for them to come down to Earth?" She frowned as many worst case scenarios entered her mind.

Klaus shrugged, "The end of the world, maybe?" His demeanor was nonchalant but he was wondering the same thing too. "Who knows but I, for one, am not getting involved in that."

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Initially the plan was to drop Damon off at the Mystic Grill so that Sam wouldn't know where Damon lived but that plan changed when Damon informed Dean that Elena wanted to talk to him before he left. This surprised Dean (and Damon when she first told him during their call) yet he knew not to question Damon about his call with Elena, especially with Sam in the car.

Without hesitation, Dean parked near the Mystic Grill before the three men exited the car. There was some complaint from Sam but glares from both Dean and Damon had shut the younger hunter up.

However, they didn't go far because standing by the Grill's door was Elena. She pushed off the wall and made her way towards them.

"Sam, why don't you grab something to eat inside?" Dean suggested as he watched Elena approach them.

"I'm not hungry." Sam refuted quickly which caught Damon's attention.

Dean narrowed his eyes at Sam. "Then buy something to drink."

Sam rolled his eyes before he walked inside the Grill.

Dean looked to Damon. "Keep tabs on him."

Damon nodded. "Watch out for Elena." He told Dean before he followed Sam inside; he managed to give Elena a brief greeting when he passed by her.

Dean stuffed his hands into his pockets. "So how are you feeling?" He asked once Elena was just a few steps away from him.

"Never better," she smiled as she stopped right in front of him. "What about you? Damon said your cure process was…painful compared to mine."

Dean chuckled. "I've dealt with worst." He shrugged as if it was no big deal. "So Damon said you wanted to talk. What about?"

Elena nibbled on her lower lip as she looked around. "Can we go somewhere else to talk? You never know who's listening around here."

Dean nodded. "It's your town." They walked towards the parking lot but to Elena's surprise, Dean headed for his Impala. She didn't argue since she knew how guys got when it came to their cars so she got in before Dean drove off towards the Gilbert house, with the help of her directions.

Once they arrived, Dean followed Elena inside and straight to the kitchen. She called out for Jeremy and Alaric but when she heard nothing, she offered Dean a drink. They didn't have any beer so Dean settled for a soda. The hunter took a sip of the cold beverage as he watched Elena switch on the kitchen radio before she joined him at the table with her own soda in hand.

The fact that there was music and that they were talking in a residential spot told Dean that Elena was covering up their conversation from vampires. This only piqued his interest further since he technically met Elena less than twenty-four hours ago. Why would she want to talk to him?

"So why did you want to talk?" Dean asked after taking another sip of his soda. He was annoyed that he had to talk over the radio but he understood its need.

Elena exhaled deeply. "Well, first off, I wanted to say thank you." She looked up at Dean with a grateful smile aimed at him. "If it hadn't been for you, Castiel never would have showed up and I'd still be a vampire."

Dean smirked; it wasn't often that he got thanked. "Well I'm glad something good came out of my capture."

"I guess you could say that." She started nibbling on her lower lip again.

Dean quickly noticed her nervous tell. "What else?"

Elena was stunned and Dean could see it. He gave her an easy smile, reassuring her that she could talk to him. It wasn't normal but she wanted to talk and he figured it had to be important and something she couldn't ask anyone else.

Elena gulped as she gathered up her nerve to just ask; for some reason this conversation was more nerve-wracking than the one she had with Rebekah about her family's history. "I was also curious."

"About?" Dean took another sip of his soda.

"The validity of Castiel's warnings," she gave him a wary look.

Dean wasn't surprised. "What did he say?"

Elena picked at the label of her soda bottle. "That I'm basically going to want to be a vampire around the time I graduate from college and that I'm supposed to have a child by then." She revealed without looking at him.

Dean gave Elena a hard look. He wasn't expecting that. He never thought that an angel would tell someone that they were meant to be a creature. Then again, the angel did tell the hunter that he was meant to be the savior of the world, while his brother was supposed to be the destroyer of it.

After feeling his eyes on her for so long, Elena looked up. "I know, quite a bombshell huh?" She nervously stated because she knew that was something a hunter wouldn't want to hear. Elena had learned about Dean being a hunter from Stefan hours after her talk with Jeremy the previous night.

"Well if it makes you feel better, I've heard worse."

"Your own?" she couldn't help but mention since Castiel had touched upon it during their talk.

"Yahtzee," he snapped his fingers before taking another sip. "So what's the problem?"

"Is what Castiel said going to happen?" She took a slow sip of her soda. She's been anxious to ask Dean about Castiel's words to her since she first found out. She could theorize with Jeremy all she wanted yet both of them were clueless when it came to angels and the way things worked for them. It wasn't like they could ask the Salvatores about it like they would if they had a vampire question. Castiel was on a whole different level.

Dean mulled over how to explain it to Elena. "Usually but sometimes things happen differently than the angels have seen it." He hated to admit that.

Elena's nose crinkled. "What do you mean?"

Dean exhaled before he explained the shortened version of his destiny as Michael's vessel for the Apocalypse. He hated talking about it but his own dilemma with his destiny was the only example he could give Elena. Destiny stated that the Apocalypse would happen and that Michael and Lucifer would have to battle it out while possessing Dean and Sam, respectively. It was meant to end with Michael killing Lucifer (which meant Dean had to kill Sam). But in the end that didn't happen. Sure the Apocalypse was adverted but not in the way that destiny had stated. Michael never possessed Dean and Sam had gained control over Lucifer long enough to throw himself and Lucifer into the pit. Sam had sacrificed himself to save the world and by doing so, he pulled Michael (who possessed Adam, their dead paternal half-brother) into the pit with him.

Elena sat, stunned, as she absorbed everything. "So basically what you're saying is that I may achieve Castiel's ending in a way that neither I nor the angels had expected?" She managed to ask after gathering her thoughts and getting Dean's story straight in her mind.

Dean nodded. "Stranger things have happened."

Elena sighed as she played with the soda label again. The news didn't really help her with her current problem.

Dean took notice of Elena's glum look. "It's not why you're conflicted though, is it?"

For a moment, Dean didn't think that Elena would answer him. It didn't matter to him whether she answered or not because he figured his usefulness to her (in regards to answers) had ended when she didn't ask about Angel-business. What more could a hunter like him help her with?

"I'm supposed to make a choice." She started before she looked at him again. "Before my transition, I was supposed to make a choice." It couldn't hurt to ask him, she thought, he could be my objective viewer.

"Between Stefan and Damon," he guessed and by the stunned expression on her face he knew that he was right. "I noticed a few things," he added but when her expression didn't change, he decided to give her more to lessen her confusion."And Damon may have told me a few other things…like the phone call you guys had." After killing the vampires, Damon had updated Dean about his life when they were waiting for Sam and Samuel to arrive.

Elena exhaled; Dean wasn't really an objective viewer after all. "Well things change."

"How so?"

Elena looked to Dean as she debated on what to tell him. Which part does she mention? She really had no clue. So much had changed since she made that phone call to Damon when they thought Klaus' bloodline was going to die out. Not only did they lose Alaric when she drowned, she had regained some crucial memories while in transition. And if that wasn't enough of a change, an angel showed her what her future-self and relationships would have been like if she stayed a vampire before she was meant to. There was so much to consider now. So much had changed.

So she generalized.

"Castiel showed me a few things…intimate…" she couldn't help but blush as she thought of the new intimacy she would have had with Damon, "…and logistical things, and when I was in transition, I got a few memories back. Memories that Damon compelled me to forget."

"And?" Dean sensed that there was more to it. He didn't bother to comment on the blush that he noticed had spread across her cheeks, although he did wonder how the angel had handled explaining the intimate things that she was blushing about.

Elena shrugged. "And now I don't know."

Dean took another soda sip, using that as a way to delay his response because he honestly couldn't believe he was having a conversation like this. This was teenage drama, drama that he ignored when he was a teenager (it seemed like a lifetime ago, now that he thought about it). If Lisa wasn't dodging his calls, Dean would have passed Elena off to Lisa so they could have this talk together. Yet he was stuck having it. Normally he would have made an excuse to bail already but Elena was important to Damon so Dean stayed put.

"Have you talked about it with him?"

She shook her head. "I won't know where to begin."

"Look Elena," he nervously scratched the back of his neck as he gathered his thoughts, "from my understanding, you and Damon are friends. Maybe even best friends if you don't include the denied lovey-dovey stuff." He couldn't help the smirk that graced his lips when he noticed her stunned expression when he bluntly brought up the potential romance. "Just talk to him," he stressed, "I know that guys usually don't like talking things out, hell I'm one of them, but Damon's been around awhile to know that sometimes…the direct approach is the best approach." He took a well needed sip of his soda. He didn't have much left, he soon discovered as moved the bottle so that the liquid inside swirled along the bottom.

Elena knew that Dean was right but she was worried. Talking to Damon about their 'thing' was always unpredictable.

Dean sighed when Elena didn't respond; she seemed lost in her thoughts. "I can't tell you who to pick Elena," he was pleased when she looked up at him, giving him her attention, "but you have to ask yourself quite a few questions if you really want to make a choice between them."

"Like what?"

Dean shook his head. "I can't answer that."

"Can you give me something to work with? I don't know what to do." Elena pleaded because she really didn't know what to do. She knew her friends preferred Stefan over Damon and yet she knew that was because there was a side of Damon that he only let her see…and Alaric…and apparently Dean too. Plus after everything that Damon had done for her (one part being that he didn't have to stay behind for her when he could have been actively searching for Stefan after the sacrifice), she couldn't disregard everything, especially not after what she learned from Castiel. It wouldn't be fair.

Dean groaned. "I can't believe I'm even discussing this right now." He mumbled to himself before he straightened up. He knew that Damon would kill him for sharing this but Dean figured that the vampire would get over it if it helped him get the girl. "During our road trip together, Damon had mentioned his time as a human and he always emphasized how being a vampire had changed him, aside from the obvious changes." Dean offered as he remembered back to the months that he had hunted with Damon back in 2005. They only talked about their pasts when they were both drunk enough to bring it up.

Elena nibbled on her lower lip after hearing this new tidbit about Damon. She had heard it from Stefan and she had seen it with Caroline.

"I guess what I'm trying to say is that, if you are meant to be a vampire later on then you need to figure out who would still accept you for you after you've turned." He finished as he tried to keep his expression neutral. "I hope that helps."

Unbeknownst to Dean, that did help Elena. It helped her remember a key moment Castiel had showed her between Damon and Stefan.

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Dean and Elena talked for a bit; she asked him more about the supernatural world while she made some grilled cheese sandwiches. Dean didn't protest about the food or the topic of discussion. He was just glad that he was being fed and that he wasn't talking about feelings anymore.

Eventually, Dean and Elena texted Damon; Elena asked if he could drive her car back while Dean told Damon that it was time to swap partners again.

When Damon and Sam arrived at the Gilbert home later on, it was clear that Sam was not pleased while Damon was amused.

It wasn't touched upon any further as Sam headed straight for the Impala (he wanted to leave and get back to work) while Dean said a quick goodbye to Elena and Damon. Numbers were exchanged before Dean walked off and got into the driver's seat of his car.

Elena watched the classic car drive off while Damon quickly typed Dean's number into his phone before sending Dean a quick text about Sam. It was the only way the vampire could think of to report his observations to the hunter without the subject knowing.

"Everything okay?" Elena questioned after watching Damon.

Damon pocketed his phone, "Nothing Dean can't handle now."

Elena nodded as she lowered her gaze. "We need to talk." She turned and headed back inside. She figured now would be the best time since Stefan had gone hunting for the day; he needed to after what happened on the Young Ranch.

"It's never a good idea to start a conversation like that." Damon quipped as he followed Elena inside. He closed the door behind him.

Elena turned and stared at Damon.

Damon sighed. "Fine, I'm all ears." And he was. He didn't want to have the conversation but he knew that it was necessary.

And it was one conversation that would change things for Damon and Elena…and hopefully for the better.

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A/N #3: And I'm leaving it there with an open-ending for Damon/Elena while Sam and Dean continue on like they did in season 6 (yet thanks to Damon, Dean is more suspicious about Sam's odd behavior). So what did you think? Originally the plan was to have the conversation between Dean/Elena but then I needed to tie up the SPN case and then a few other ideas came to mind but I always intended for Ch. 5 to be the last chapter (with the conclusion of 6x05 and 4x01). Review one last time...please!

A/N #4: Originally, the Klaus/Rebekah scene wasn't going to be included but a review by tvdspnislife had mentioned it and I thought 'why not?' so there you go! Speaking of reviews, another review (from everythingwillbeperfect) had mentioned the story behind how Damon and Dean met while Sam was at Stanford and I'm happy to say that I do plan to write about it. I have a case in mind and everything but I'm unsure as to when I'd publish it. Just be on the lookout for it if you're interested.

A/N #5: I just want to take this last opportunity to thank you all for reading this story, giving it a chance, and giving me your support. It truly means the world to me and I'm eternally grateful. I hope you check out my other stories and my LiveJournal account for any updates. THANK YOU AGAIN!

Originally Published: May 2, 2013