The Adventures of the Salvatore Brothers

Chapter One

Bon Temp

Damon sat on a tree near the ruins of old Fells Church in Mystic Falls. His only hope in bringing Kathrine back has just been destroyed. Bonnie had been possessed by her ancestor Emily and she made her destroy the crystal that would bring Kathrine back to him. He saved her families life and promised that in return she'd save Kathrine's life so he could be with her forever but now he'd never see her again. He tries to hold back his tears as he hears his younger brother Stefan approach him. Damon starts to speak.

"Kathrine never compelled me I knew everything every step of the way....It was real for me." Damon admitted to Stefan. "I'll leave now" he said after a short pause as more tears filled his eyes.

Stefan knew what he had do. He walked over to where Elena's car where she was trying to calm Bonnie down who got attacked and almost killed by Damon just moments ago. He had to give her his blood in order to save her. Stefan approached the car but stayed a safe distance as Elena got Bonnie into her car.

"Is she in danger of becoming..." Elena started but was interrupted by Stefan.

"No she has to die with my blood in her system. So keep an eye on her tonight and make sure nothing happens and once it leaves her system she'll be fine." Stefan assured her.

"I'm gonna tell her the truth."

"You sure?" Stefan nodded. He knew this would come at some point.

"I can trust her." Elena started as she looked at the car then back at Stefan. "I need someone to know, someone to talk to. I can't live in secret."

"You shouldn't have to."

"You saved her life." Elena started. Stefan looked down then back at her. He knew she was going to make this hard for him. "I'm sorry Stefan I thought that I couldn't be with you but I can. You don't have to push me away. I can do this." Elena assured Stefan as she grabbed both of his hands.

"I can't." Stefan started waiting for it to sink in as his eyes started to fill with tears. "I uh I have to leave Elena. Too many people have died, too much has happened."

"What?" Elena said in disbelief. "No. I know you think you're protecting me but..."

"I have to." Stefan interrupted. "Uh coming home was....was a mistake. I can't be a part of your life anymore."

"Don't go Stefan..." Elena started begging as tears built up in her eyes. "Please you don't have to. This is your home. You don't have to, just please don't go." Elena said seconds from crying.

Stefan looked at her then kissed her hand and brushed her cheek.

"Goodbye Elena." he said with tears in his eyes as he walked off.

"You're just gonna walk away?" Elena said in attempt to stop him from leaving.

"Don't walk away Stefan." She said as she watched him continue to walk off into the night.

"Stefan!" she cried to the night but it was no use he was leaving and he wasn't coming back. Elena began to cry as she watch the man she loved walk away from her.

The next morning Stefan walked into the living room to see Damon looking out the window.

"Do you have any idea of where you'll go?" Stefan asked his brother.

"I don't know. London maybe. See some friends." Damon said still looking out the window.

"You don't have any friends Damon." Stefan reminded him.

"You're right Stefan, I only have you so" he started as he turned to his brother. "Where we going?"

"We are not going anywhere. I'm gonna live my life as far away from you as possible."

"But we're a team. We could travel the world together. We could try out for the Amazing Race" Damon proposed as he walked in front of his brother.

"Hmm that's funny. Seriously where are you going? Cause we're not staying in this town."

"We could go to that town you were researching all night." Damon said as he grabbed and opened a brown folder that was on the table next to them. "Bon Temp. I've.....never heard of the place." Damon admitted to his brother.

"That's because they don't want anyone to hear about it."

"Who's they?" Damon said still looking through the folder.

"Vampires." Stefan said as he snatched the folder away from Damon.

"Ohhh a Vampire town, what could possibly go wrong there?" Damon said sarcastically. "So how did you find out about this 'Vampire town'?"

"Lexi told me about it before you killed her." Stefan said reminding Damon that he killed his oldest and closest friend.

"I said I was sorry about that okay. I got the town off our backs it was for-" Damon started to remind his brother.

"The greater good. You said that already." Stefan interrupted.

"So how do these Vampires in this Vampire town feed? Do they have tasty humans lining up or is it a snatch and grab kind of thing?"

"They have synthetic blood in all blood types there so they don't have to feed on humans. Although I'm sure there are a few that still do."

"I prefer real blood but I'm sure I can find some human to feed off of."

"Who said you were coming with me?"

"Of course I'm coming with you."

"You are not coming with me to kill more people. I wont let you do it Damon." Stefan said with a serious expression on his face.

"Come on Stef."

"Come on nothing. You're not coming with me."

"Please?"

"Under one condition." Stefan said after a short pause.

"Name it."

"You only drink synthetic blood." Stefan said already knowing what his answer would be.

"No way."

"You could at least try it Damon."

"Fine I'll try it but if I don't like it I'm finding someone to eat." Damon agreed after he thought about it for a while.

"Damon..."

"I wont kill them. I'll just take what I need and erase their memory afterwards."

"Fine. But don't get in any trouble." Stefan said still unhappy about the way his brother chooses to live.

Stefan and Damon arrived in Bon Temp and checked into the hotel around 9pm. It wasn't that big of a place the room had two twin beds with one wood bedside table between both beds. The table had a lamp and the remote to the TV on top of it, and a bible in the drawer. Damon insisted on staying at the hotel as Stefan went out to go buy some True Blood. Damon was sitting on the bed trying to ignore his hunger when Stefan walked in with a pack of True Blood which he then heated up two bottles in the microwave to 98.6 and offered one to Damon.

"Ugh. Do I have to?" Damon said with a disgusted look on his face. He needed real blood to satisfy him not this fake blood that the Japanese made in the lab.

"Come on. You said you'd try it." Stefan said stretching his arm a little more insisting that his brother to take the bottle.

"Fine." Damon said taking the warm bottle from his brother. He watched his brother take a sip of his.

"It's actually quite good." Stefan said taking another sip. That was easy for Stefan to say. He'd been feeding off of bunnies since Damon could remember.

Damon looked at his bottle as if it was filled with vomit. "Here goes nothing." Damon said while taking a deep breath then taking a sip. "Oh god." He said with liquid still in his mouth as he went to the sink to spit it out.

"I am not drinking that disgusting stuff and you can't make me." Damon said walking back to Stefan as he wiped his mouth with his sleeve then handing the bottle back to Stefan.

"Well it's either this or starve." Stefan told his brother.

"I'd rather starve then have to take another sip of that poison. Leave it to scientists to ruin a good thing."

"Very well." Stefan said getting up from where he was sitting. "I'm going for a walk. Stay here. I don't want to draw any attention to us."

"Alright. I need to get some sleep anyways." Damon said laying down on his bed.

"Okay." Stefan said walking toward the door.

"Oh and Stefan."

"Yes?" Stefan asked his brother as he turned back around to look at him.

"Bring me back some real food?" Damon said while looking towards him from where he was laying.

"Very funny Damon. Don't get in any trouble while I'm gone."

"Sure thing Stef." he said with a sly smile.

"I mean it Damon. We just got here I don't want any trouble." Stefan said with a serious expression he waited a few seconds to see if Damon would respond when he didn't Stefan walked out the door.

Damon laid on his bed and waited till he couldn't hear Stefan's footsteps anymore then he rushed out of the hotel to the nearest place where he could find someone to satisfy his burning hunger. He found a small bar and grill called Merlotte's. It looked like it was closing. He heard a girl with a Southern accent say goodbye to a man who he guessed was the owner of the bar. Damon waited in the dark parking lot for the girl to come out.

The girl walked out of Merlotte's and headed to her car. As she got her keys out of her purse Damon ran past her to get a better look at her. She was about 5' 5", mid twenties, with blond hair that was tied up into a ponytail. She was wearing black shorts, a white t-shirt with 'Merlotte's Bar and Grill' printed just below her left shoulder and a name tag that read Sookie. The girl spun around and looked in the direction Damon had ran.

"Bill?" she started as she continued to look around her. Damon passed by her again.

"Bill cut it out this isn't funny!" she said annoyed and frightened at the same time.

At that moment Damon came up behind her and bit down on her neck as she let out a loud scream. Damon put his hand over her mouth muffling her screams as he felt her warm blood enter his mouth and go down his throat quenching his thirst. Soon after someone pulled Damon off of Sookie's neck as she fell to the ground weak from the loss of blood. Damon looked up at the stranger who seemed to be lost in thought. He took advantage of the moment and knocked the man across the parking lot and ran back to the hotel.

Just then Stefan came back from his walk and went back into the hotel and up to his hotel room.

"Damon I know you don't like the..." Stefan started then realized that the room was empty.

"Damon?" Stefan said as he searched the room for Damon.

"Behind you." Damon said standing in the doorway looking at his brother.

"Damon where did you go? What have you done?" Stefan said jumping to conclusions.

"I haven't done anything." Damon lied as he closed the door then started walking towards his bed.

Stefan rushed to his brother and banged him on the closed door. "What is wrong with you? Did you kill someone?" Stefan said with rage.

"Get off of me." Damon said taking his brothers hands off of him. "A. Don't touch me." Damon started as he lifted a finger in the air "B. I didn't kill anyone." he continued as he walked past his brother. "C. Some guy interrupted my meal which is why I'm back here with you." He finished turning to his brother.

"Why would you attack someone? We just got here and you already have people wanting to find us and get rid of us."

"Please, only one guy knows and I flung him across the parking lot....He looked familiar. I think I've seen him somewhere before." Damon said walking to his bed. "I think his name is....Dill.....Prompton or something." Damon said while laying down.

"Is that right? Dill Prompton?" Stefan said looking at Damon.

"Something like that." Damon said closing his eyes. They sat there without saying a word till Damon broke the silence. "You know that Sookie girl I was feeding off of tasted...different." Damon said remembering the taste of her blood.

"Maybe she has a different blood type then you're used to." Stefan said looking at Damon.

"I've had them all." Damon said sitting up on his bed.

"What are you suggesting?" Stefan asked with a confused look on his face.

"I don't know. Maybe this town is more then just a 'Vampire town'."

"Speaking of that I forgot to congratulate you for already making everyone want us out of here. Only you could get us kicked out of the only Vampire town in the world in under 24 hours." Stefan said sitting up on his bed. "You've truly outdone yourself."

"They haven't kicked us out yet, so just relax."

"How can I relax when I know that people are probably looking for us right now? Our only chance to live without hiding and you ruin it."

"Goodnight Stefan." Damon said annoyed as he turned off the bedside lamp and laying back down to get some sleep.

Bill was waiting for Sookie to wake up from the attack and loss of blood. He has carried her from the parking lot back to her house and gave her some of his blood so she would recover faster. Sookie's head started moving and she started grunting as she started to wake up.

"Sookie?"

"Bill..." Sookie managed to say trying to remember what happened.

"Sookie are you alright?"

"Yeah I think so." Sookie responded still trying to search through her memory. Then she remembered someone attacking her in the parking lot of Merlotte's and biting her neck. She instantly reached up and touched the right side of her neck when she didn't feel anything she ran to the nearest mirror and checked both side of her neck.

"It's....it's gone. There's no mark or anything." Sookie said as she looked at her reflection in amazement.

"You lost a lot of blood so I gave you some of mine so you would heal faster."

"Bill I don't understand...." Sookie started as she thought back on what happened. "What was that thing that attacked me?" Sookie said turning to Bill hoping he'd know the answer to her question.

"I do not know what he is" Bill admitted. "But his name is Damon Salvatore."