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Twinkling Abyss


Dominic Salvatore smirked as he heard is brother's familiar voice and downed a shot of whiskey. Dominic had been in his home town and birthplace of Mystic Falls for about a month now and was having fun terrorizing the town with his big brother, Damon. The youngest Salvatore turned on his bar stool and stood, grabbing his shot glass and the whiskey bottle before walking to a booth in which he had a clear view of the tables occupants. Dominic then listened in on the conversation as he continued to down shots of whiskey, he did however, pause when one of the girls on the table mentioned something about living here.

"So, you were born in Mystic Falls?" The only blonde girl on the table asked with a dreamy gaze in her eyes. Stefan nodded.

"Hmm; and moved when I was still young." Stefan replied with a small smile. Dominic snorted lowly and drank his last shot before he turned around full so that he was facing the tables occupants.

"Parents?" This one was from the dark skinned girl. Dominic watched with barely constrained amusement as Stefan locked eyes with everyone on the table.

"My parents passed away." Stefan said somberly with a forced smile and a clenched jaw. Dominic now openly smirked at his brother.

"I'm sorry." The last girl said with a familiar voice echoing out her mouth. "Any siblings?"

Dominic stirred, awaiting his brother's response. There was a pregnant pause until he said, "None that I talk to...I live with my uncle." Before any of the girls could comment or change the subject, Dominic stood and walked over, catching the attention of Stefan, his face going blank.

"Really, Stefanie?" Dominic asked with a raised eyebrow and a full-blown smirk on his face. "What am I, chopped liver?" The three girls exchanged glances and looked back onto the siblings.

"He's hot." Blondie whispered to the girl next to her who nodded in agreement.

"Dominic." Stefan uttered through gritted teeth. Dominic's smirk never faltered, not until he looked at the girl that was in front of him. Katherine. His steely blue eyes locked onto Stefan who grimaced slightly.

"Long time, no see; Brother." There was an accusing edge in his words. Dominic then pulled a chair up next to Stefan.

"Aren't you going to introduce me to your new friends?" Dominic asked, smirking flirtatiously at the trio of beautiful girls. Stefan clenched his jaw and couldn't answer.

"Yeah, come on Stefan." Blondie pouted at the middle Salvatore brother. Stefan said nothing as he stared into Dominic's eyes for a while before he removed them. Stefan cleared his throat and motioned to each girl.

"Dominic, this is Caroline,-" Blondie "-, Bonnie,-" dark one "-, and Elena." Katherine's doppelganger. "Girls, this is Dominic Salvatore - my baby brother."

Dominic scowled at Stefan but smiled flirtatiously at Caroline and charmingly at the other two.

"Well, would you look at the time; I gotta get home, unpack." Dominic locked eyes with his brother. "Don't stay out too late now, Stefan. You got to go to bed early." A teasing smile was on his face as he turned around. "See you around, Ladies!" was his parting words and then the three girls immediately turned to a now worried looking Stefan.


Dominic sneaked himself into the Mystic Falls Hospital and proceeded to do a blood run. He gathered some O negative, AB positive and his personal favourite B negative. Dominic smirked and appeared in the basement of the Salvatore Boarding House. The youngest Salvatore then proceeded to place them in a refrigerator there. Dominic was placing them in order when he heard his 'uncle' Zach storm into Stefan's room.

"You promised." Zach accused Stefan angrily. Dominic heard the flap of a newspaper and grinned.

"This was an animal attack." Stefan drawled out in a dumb voice. Dominic was now on the stairs, walking up.

The last human Salvatore scoffed. "Don't give me that. I know the game." Zach began somberly. Stefan sighed and Dominic heard the creak of the bed. "You tear them up enough, they always suspect an animal attack." Zach then took a calming breath before finishing. "You said you had it under control."

"And I do." Came the reply.

Zach sighed. "Please, Uncle Stefan. Mystic Falls is a different place now. It's been quiet for years, but there are people who still remember. And you being here, it's just going to stir things up."

"It's not my intention." Stefan replied simply.

"Then what is? Why did you come back?" Zach demanded. "After all this time, why now?"

"I don't have to explain myself." Stefan scoffed and then proceeded to glare at Zach.

"I know that you can't change what you are." Zach said quietly. "But you don't belong here anymore."

"Where do I belong?" Stefan whispered desperately.

"I can't tell you what to do. But coming back here was a mistake." Zach then exited the room and into Dominic, who held his finger to his lips before pushing past him and entered Stefan's room. The man in question opened a cabinet door and pulled out a journal. In the dim lighting, Dominic noticed the date of 1864 etched onto the spine. Stefan opened the journal and retrieved a picture of Katherine from decades ago.

Dominic blurred into Stefan and held him up to the wall by the throat. "Have you lost your fuckin' mind?!" Dominic spat at the middle brother. He blurred them back to the cabinet, pinning Stefan to the floor and holding up the picture of Katherine. "I thought you was over her!" Dominic smashed Stefan into a wall before throwing him across the room. Dominic glared at Stefan and crossed his arms with a raised eyebrow.

"I am." Stefan replied as he rubbed his throat.

"Then why are you going out with Elena? She's a carbon-copy of Katherine."

"I don't need to explain myself to you, of all people." Stefan shot back, repeating his words to Zach.

"So, who; Damon? Our many times great, council member nephew?" Dominic asked sarcastically as he strolled forward. "Or how about Lexi?" Stefan scowled and clenched his jaw.

Dominic scoffed and turned around. "You're pathetic." Stefan stared after Dominic and then bent down to get the picture of Katherine.

Dominic had been busy for the entire day, gathering more blood bags to put in his personal refrigerator in his room and compelling some more clothes for himself as well as buying state of the art gym equipment. Now he was in living room, pouring himself a glass of scotch as Stefan stormed in.

"Someone else was attacked tonight Zach, and it wasn't me." Stefan said as his eyes darted to me.

"Hey brother, I've been in the next town over getting some stuff. I got back, like what, an hour ago." Dominic said, with Zach nodding to confirm it. Stefan sighed before blurring up into his room. A crow flew in just as Dominic entered. The steely blue eyes locked onto cerulean blue of the oldest Salvatore brother; Damon.

"Damon." Stefan and Dominic stated, one in shock, one in recognition.

"Hello, brothers." Damon smirked at the shocked look on Stefan's face.

"Crow's a bit much, don't you think?" Dominic stated, clearly amused. Damon smirked arrogantly.

"Wait till you see what I can do with the fog." Dominic cocked his brow, shrugged and smirked all at the same time.

"When'd you get here?" Stefan asked bluntly, glaring at Damon.

"Well, I couldn't miss your first day at school." Damon said mockingly. "Your hair's different. I like it."

"I agree with everything that Damon has just said, Stefanie!" Dominic chuckled as he plopped down onto a couch. Damon smirked at his baby brother.

"It's been 15 years, Damon." Stefan said, his voice like a monotone.

"Really?" Dominic questioned, propping his feet up and picking up Stefan's journal. "Huh, time flies. Tell me Damon, what have you been up to for the last decade and a half, you know ever since you ruined our Nephew Zach's life?"

Damon paused, eyes narrowing at a slightly amused looking Hybrid. A haunted look shivered across his face, before he turned, completely ignoring Dominic.

"Thank God. I couldn't take another day of the nineties s. That horrible grunge look? Did not suit you." Damon let loose an extremely weak chuckle. "Remember, Stefan, it's important to stay away from fads." Damon finished, wagging his finger in a mocking gesture.

"Why are you here? Why are you both here?" Stefan asked, looking at Damon then Dominic.

Damon answered first. "I miss my little brother." Dominic sighed and turned to face Stefan.

"I just wanted to come home, it's been a long time coming." Dominic shrugged.

"You hate small towns. It's boring. There's nothing for you to do." Stefan said matter-of-factly.

"I actually like small towns, Stef. It's Damon that doesn't." Dominic grinned at his slightly older brother.

"I've managed to keep myself busy." Damon said with a eye roll and glare at Dominic who smirked.

Stefan nodded. "You know, you left that girl alive tonight. That's very clumsy of you." Stefan chided, smirking slightly.

"Ah. That can be a problem..." Damon said. "For you."

"Why are you here now?" Stefan questioned again, brow furrowed in concentration as he read Damon expertly.

"I could ask you the same question. However, I'm fairly certain your answer can be summed up all into one little word...Elena." Damon said, smirking. Dominic rolled his eyes and blurred downstairs to get two blood bags, and two brandy glasses before blurring back upstairs to hand one of each to Damon.

"She took my breath away. Elena." Damon said as he ripped open the blood bag and poured it into a glass, Dominic mirroring him. "She's a dead ringer for Katherine." Damon continued, before pausing to have a sip. "Is it working, Stefan? Being around her, being in her world? Does it make you feel alive?"

"She's not Katherine." Stefan denied hastily. Dominic snorted.

"Let's hope not, I mean; we know how that ended. Tell me something, when's the last time you had something stronger than a squirrel?" Dominic inquired curiously, as he admired the steady collection of journals that Stefan had in his collection.

Stefan scoffed. "I know what you're doing. Both of you." Stefan added, making Damon and Dominic share amused glances. "It's not gonna work."

"Yeah? Come on. Don't you crave a little?" Damon asked as he downed the blood and then stepped up to Stefan. A resounding smack went through the room as Damon started to hit Stefan.

"Stop it." Stefan said warningly.

"Let's do it. Together. All three of us. I saw a couple girls out there." Damon suggested, smirk attached. He winked at Dominic, who winked back.

"Or we could just, I don't know, go straight for Elena." Dominic added, amusement on his face.

"Stop it!" Stefan growled pleadingly.

"Imagine what her blood tastes like!" Damon finally shouted. Dominic noticed how Stefan's face transformed and his smirk grew bigger and bigger, until he looked like a Cheshire-Cat. "I can." Damon leered suggestively.

"I said stop!" Stefan growled with animalistic hunger. He blurred into Damon, knocking him off of his feet and out of the window, his sensitive ears picking up Dominic's laughter and guffaws as he looks down onto the floor from Stefan's bedroom.

"I was impressed." Damon smirked before shrugging and placing on a faux contemplative face. "I give it a...six. Missing style, but I was pleasantly surprised. Very good with the whole face-" Damon mocked the vampire face and growled like a kitten. "-thing. It was good." The eldest chuckled.

"You know, it's all fun and games, Damon, huh? But wherever you go, people die." Stefan said, climbing to his feet.

"That's a given." Damon shrugged, smirking at Stefan.

"Not here. I won't allow it."

"I take that as an invitation." Damon said, as Dominic jumped out of the broken window, landing steady on his feet.

"Please, after all these years, can't we just give it a rest?" Stefan begged desperately.

"I, well we-" he indicated between himself and Dominic "-promised you an eternity of misery, so we're just keeping our word."

"Just stay away from Elena." Stefan growled out through gritted teeth.

"Where's your ring?" Damon asked with dark humor. "Oh, yeah, sun's coming up in a couple of hours, and, poof, ashes to ashes." Damon was laughing quietly at the look on Stefan's face, and before long Dominic followed with a brief chuckle and gave the ring back to Stefan. "Relax. It's right here."

Damon snarled and grabbed Stefan by the throat and threw him against the garage door before blurring over to him.

"You should know better than to think you're stronger than me. You lost that fight when you stopped feeding on people." Damon said to him before growling and getting darker. "I wouldn't try it again." A grunt was heard.

And then a hand gripped Damon by the throat, hoisting him up into the air. "Now you've had some fun for tonight Damon, now take a hike." Dominic growled, and Damon sneered at him. Dominic then propelled Damon through the air.

"Are you alright Stefan?" Dominic asked, grabbing Stefan by the forearm and pulling him to his feet.

Stefan wordlessly nodded, wheezing slightly. Dominic smiled slightly, helping Stefan into his room. "You know if you're gonna stay on the animal diet then at least buy some frozen animal blood or something." Dominic said, glancing around the room.

Stefan chuckled and fell back on his bed. Dominic smiled before walking to his own room and launching himself across the room and onto the bed, where he instantly fell asleep.


1864, April

"Stefan, since I can't find your brother's anywhere, you're going to have to meet our two new house guests; the Pierce's." Giuseppe Salvatore said to his middle son.

Stefan nodded at once and stopped writing in his journal to retrieve a handsome looking coat. "How do I look Father?" Stefan asked, turning around to face Giuseppe.

"Like a Salvatore." Giuseppe smiled. Stefan grinned and walked out and around his father to the stairs. Stefan fixed his hair and straightened his jacket before pulling on some gloves. The middle Salvatore brother breathed deeply before calmly opening the door just as a fine looking carriage traveled down road and onto the estate. Stefan watched curiously as it stopped, and felt himself moving forward. Step were placed down and a young and gorgeous black woman exited before extending a hand and the most beautiful woman that Stefan had ever seen before stepped out. Not a moment later and equally beautiful but exceptionally younger woman stepped out.

Stefan stepped closer to them. "You must be the two Miss Pierce's." Stefan stated as he got closer. The elder looking one took his offered hand and curtseyed.

"Please, call me Katherine. This is my baby sister; Alexis." Katherine smiled enchantingly at Stefan who smiled back.

...

It had been hours since the two Pierce sisters had arrived and Stefan was writing in his journal when he heard the tell tale sign of his younger brother, Dominic, arriving at the house. His father had already taken Damon to chide and now the same would happen to Dominic. Stefan personally thought that Dominic was treated fairly well for a bastard child; he's living the life of a nobleman and is making a very good name for himself in the industry of fighting.

A maid came into his room. "Yes, Cecilia?" Stefan asked politely as he stood and wiped his hands on the bottom of his shirt.

"Supper's ready, Mr Salvatore." The maid responded before he nodded and headed in the direction of the Pierce sister's rooms. It appears that Damon had the same idea. Just as they were about to knock, shouting sounded from downstairs and the brother's could hear the dulcet tones of their father and younger half-brother. Damon and Stefan exchanged glances before knocking on the door.

"Messrs' Salvatore! Please, come on in." Alexis Pierce said, smiling disarmingly at them when they entered.

The brother's cleared their throats and spoke as one. "May we have the honour of escorting you to the dining room?" Katherine giggled and accepted Stefan's arm just as Alexis did Damon's.

"Perhaps we should dawdle, Miss Katherine, Miss Alexis. My Father and Brother are...settling disputes."

"Of course not, Stefan." Damon spoke chidingly to his younger brother. "The two ladies have been travelling for who knows how long? The must be famished." Stefan glanced at his brother before agreeing and apologising.

"No need Mr Salvatore, we understand." Katherine smiled at him.

The group entered the dining room to see Giuseppe puce coloured and breathing heavily and a young man with a angry look on his face.

"...but what do you care, Father?" The young man asked scathingly. "After all, I am just a simple-minded bastard that got lucky!"

"Dominic!" Stefan barked, and the young man turned around. His anger diminished when he locked eyes with the younger Pierce sister. Damon and Stefan exchanged glances and Damon took a step forward but was waved down by Giuseppe.

"I need to go." Dominic whispered before he stormed past his father and out of the house.

"Really, father?" Damon asked as he took in the dining room.

"Not now, Damon." Giuseppe snapped. The Salvatore's knew that Dominic would go out, have a one or two drinks then he'd get into a fight and then one of the townsfolk would run for either himself, Damon or Stefan to step in. But it was different. The chocolate brown eyes of the young woman stayed on Dominic Salvatore's mind all through the night.