Her mouth immediately opened in protest of his instructions. "You can't be serious, Damon," she answered. She would stay down and out of sight but to abandon him? No, that wasn't even an option.
"If you're in trouble, I"m not going to leave you here to get hurt." She would do anything to save her friends and she wasn't going to put her own survival above anyone else.
"So give me one of the table legs, too." She wouldn't have the upper body strength to impale someone but she could at least hit them. Or do something to help. She wasn't going to sit there and be a target.