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Except for Bella and the hunters, they're my created characters and the background story that came with them is merely a fiction bearing no relations with the actual show.

This chapter doesn't contain spanking but just mentions of it.

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I don't care: Chapter 6

When Damon said that Stefan is not going to like this, Alaric was not really sure what Damon meant. He was still clueless when the man had ordered Elena and Caroline to watch over Stefan and had dragged Alaric to the hospital. But now that they had what Damon needed to get Stefan to drink the blood, Alaric was definitely sure that Stefan would not like this at all.

"He is so not going to be happy about this" Alaric said, looking at the equipments that Damon was stealing from the hospital.

"Do we have a choice?" Damon asked and Alaric's sigh confirmed that this was their only option.

When Alaric and Damon returned home, Stefan had somewhat gotten worse. He was all pale and looked near death. Elena was already in tears clutching Stefan's hand as Caroline, Bonnie and Jeremy, all looked teary eyed.

"What's wrong?" Damon asked. "What took you so long?" Elena shouted back at Damon who promptly ignored her to check on Stefan. "He's okay. But we should get the things done quickly" Damon said which had Alaric getting the supplies out quickly.

Damon lifted Stefan in his arms and turned to Alaric, "the bedroom would be better for this." Alaric nodded, gathering the supplies and following the brothers upstairs.

"What are you doing?" Elena gasped as she saw the supplies in Alaric's hands.

Elena and the rest followed Damon upstairs, Elena being a bit wary of what Damon was going to do. "What are you going to do with a feeding tube?" Caroline asked. "What do you think I'm going to do? Obviously, feed Stefan the blood" Damon snorted.

"Ric, we have to get the tube down his nose to his stomach and then we'll see if he can keep the blood down." Damon said as he cut his wrist letting his blood flow in the blood bag. Assuring himself that this much blood would be enough for Stefan, Damon turned to his brother to get the tube down the boy's nose when Elena stopped him.

"No…" Elena trailed off, worried if this was the right way or not. "Do you have a better suggestion, Elena? Or would you prefer him dead? Because give it an hour, and you'll find the results not so pleasant" Damon shouted at the girl.

Taking a step back, Elena sighed, letting Damon do what he was doing.

It definitely was not going to be so easy. They needed Stefan to wake up for this and when the boy groaned and woke up. His brother looked many years older with his pale skin but with he was still Damon's younger brothers. "Listen to me Stef, I'm going to put this through your nose and all you have to do is keep swallowing until it reaches your stomach." Damon said showing Stefan the feeding tube and nearly feeling his own resolve break at the teary eyed boy in front of him.

Stefan had been through this before when they were human and he was six years old. They had gotten him on a feeding tube since he was too sick to keep anything down.

"Stefan all you need is to keep swallowing until we have the tube down to your stomach" the doctor said.

Crying his little heart out, Stefan had thrown up pitifully as the tube kept going down his nose, his throat and to his stomach.

He couldn't help that he had a gag reflex.

"Come on boy, stop making a mess on yourself" his father had shouted at him while Damon glared at the man and held his little brother's hand through this whole procedure.

Damon had been there the whole time, rubbing Stefan's back and encouraging his little brother to breathe through the pain.

"You're fine. I'm right here little brother." Damon assured his baby brother.

"No, Damon, please…" Stefan weakly protested. "It's okay. I'm right here." Damon assured his brother as he held the tube to Stefan's nose.

"Stefan, relax and keep swallowing, okay" Alaric said, holding the boy's arms. Weak or not, Stefan was actually putting up a little fight.

"Relax. You're fine. I'm right here" Damon said as they got the tube down to Stefan's stomach.

If they saw Stefan grasping Damon's hand throughout the whole procedure then nobody commented on it and neither did anyone say anything when Damon rubbed Stefan's back hearing the boy choke on a sob.

But it brought a smile to everybody's face when they saw that Stefan had kept the blood down.

"Now just take a deep breath and I'll pull the tube out, okay?" Damon said but he found himself hesitating to pull his hand from Stefan's grasp. Raising an eyebrow at Alaric, Damon silently instructed the man to pull the tube out.

Damon managed to keep Stefan calm as Alaric pulled the tube out.

"It's okay. You're fine. I'm right here." Damon comforted his little brother.

A few minutes had gone by and they were all holding their breaths waiting for Stefan to throw up and letting out a sigh of relief when Stefan seemed to be holding the blood down.

"It worked" Damon shouted, smiling at his fast asleep brother who was still clinging on Damon's arms, tired from the whole procedure.

"I thought you didn't care" Bonnie whispered to Damon.

"I don't care" Damon replied.

Bonnie chuckled, eying Damon's hand that was still in Stefan's hold but not really saying anything.

They left the brothers alone because no matter how many times Damon says 'I don't care' he actually care a lot about his baby brother.

Slowly, Stefan got back to health and though Damon kept saying he doesn't care, Stefan knew he owes his life to his big brother because the man actually cared for him.

A/N

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I'm leaving the end open so that if I ever want to continue it, I can come back to it otherwise, that's all for this story.

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