The Tale of Two Fractured Souls

Chapter 1

They said that life had a plan for everyone. That they all had a road to follow and everything in life happened for a reason, but to Damon he honestly thought that all of it was bullshit. There was no plan for him and the universe or whoever controlled his path had screwed him.

As he sat in one of the hard plastic chairs at his foster kids support group, he couldn't help but think these things. After all he had been through this was the final straw. Hadn't he had enough pain and misery in his life to last him a few decades?

He sighed as he listened to yet another story he didn't care about. He didn't really see the point in all of this. As if taking about the way they felt would solve anything. They were all being screwed by the system and the only reason Damon was here in the first place was because they were thinking about putting him with yet another family. He was just glad he was only a year away from being eighteen so he could get the hell out of this heel hole. He had saved more than enough money to rent his own apartment when he got out and he couldn;t wait to finally have a stable home. All he had to do was hold out for another year before he could be something more than the boy with no name and no real family. Only one more year. He just had to be patient and hope nothing screwed his chances up.

"Damon, Would you like to share with the group?"

He looked at his sponsor Lexi as if she had grew a third eye overnight. She knew he hated sharing, but she always insisted no matter how much he protested.. He knew better to piss her off, so instead of complaining like he normally did he stood up and looked around the group.

He expected to see the same usual faces in the group, but today it looked as if they had a new girl in their grasp and despite the bruise that she spotted the left side of her face and the burn mark on her right arm, he had to admit she was the most beautiful person that he had ever laid eyes on. With her long brown hair and brown eyes that he could stare into for days. Who was this gorgeous specimen?

"Damon,"

Lexi's voice snapped Damon's attention back to the group as he remembered what he was doing. He cleared his throat and began.

"Well most of you already know my story. I had shitty parents who beat my senseless and let their friends do whatever they wanted to me and than someone finally decided to say something to CPS and they took me out of that awful home and into the system where I've switched living arrangements fifteen times. I mean some were actually pretty nice, but others were just as awful as my previous situation. And now I'm about to go into my sixteenth foster home and I hope that it's at least some what decent so I can stay there for a year and than I can finally get out of this system and into a real home of my own. "

Lexi nodded as Damon sat down looking at the girl he had just saw. She seemed a tiny bit surprised, but something behind her gaze looked dark. He wondered what her story was?

"Elena-"

The girls head turned towards Lexi as she narrowed her eyes.

"What?" she said a little bit too forcefully.

"Is there something you would like to share with the group?"

Elena put on the fake smile that he knew all too well as she looked directly at Lexi.

"Yeah, I would actually."

Elena sat up and cleared her throat ready to speak.

"Hello everyone my name is Elena Gilbert and I can honestly say with all my heart that all of you can fuck off. I'm out of here."

Before Lexi could say anything Elena was walking towards the door and forcefully opened it slamming it behind her. He had seen many cases like this over his visits to the group, but this time he actually wanted to do something about it.

"I'll go after her." Damon said sitting up.

Lexi nodded and Damon left the room to go find his mystery girl.