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Chapter 1

Damon's POV

Humans suck. Well I guess technically speaking, I am the one that sucks. For two reasons. One, I am a vampire. That kind of explains itself. Ha-ha. I could use a laugh, because the second reason and the most important, is that I have failed at life, or actually, existence. I lost my brother Stefan and it's all my fault. If only I didn't screw up Klaus' plan. I would not have been bitten by Tyler, so Stefan wouldn't have gone solo and gone to Klaus like that just so he could save me from the werewolf bite. Of course, Tyler and Caroline would be dead. I wouldn't care, but then it would make Elena upset and that would suck. So basically everything sucks. Everything sucks because, even though Elena forgave me for all the bad things I did before I almost died, she got so upset with Stefan being out of the picture she blamed his capture on me. Now I know she doesn't mean it, but I can understand where she comes from. If she had been the one to make a deal with Klaus, and was whisked away I'd feel angry at Stefan. So now she's mopey and depressed. So I left for Italy. Yeah that might have been a dumb move on my part, but I couldn't stand to watch her beat herself over losing Stefan when it was clearly my fault. I decided to give myself one more chance, but I am still angry and stricken by grief. I swear if something goes well for me today I won't kill myself, but if not, well… wait what is that?

Damon notices a change in air a new aroma filled his senses. He could just taste it and plus it was getting to be dinner time anyway.

"Son of Bitch!" screeched a voice. What the hell? Oh well, Superman to the rescue. Just what I needed.

I arrived in a dark alley to find SIX VAMPIRES CORNERING ONE HUMAN? Sure, I could see a vampire eating a human, or two vampires hunting together, if they were soul mates or whatever. That would be normal. But six? The vampires were all guys, cornering a girl who looked to be about 18 or 19. She was wearing black skinny jeans and a black lacy tang-top. It didn't make sense. So I decided to listen in on what they were saying.

"Come on, don't be shy," one of the voices said. "He looked more gushy and less life threatening than the other, but still threatening nonetheless. And I couldn't blame him. Well I guess I could blame him for being an ass, but the girl... She had brown hair. So dark it could have been black. Her eyes were a chocolate brown. She was lean with a medium height. I snapped out my observing state when i heard these words.

"We don't have to hurt you, but Klaus doesn't much like you running away. He'll want you back."

Klaus? I snapped out my observing state when I heard these words. My mind was now more focused on strategy rather than appreciating a nice view. If I saved this girl, it would be messy. Six vampires to one was never pretty. Great. You know, saving a human was near the top of my to-do list for today, right after killing myself. What the hell. Oh well, Superman to the rescue. Just what I needed. Going against my conscience, I jumped down from the roof behind a dumpster. Was I prepared to save a human? I can't help ask but why since all my humanity has brought me is pain and misery. Well, maybe if I saved her I could redeem two lifetimes of evil and not go to Hell. Right. That will happen.In a flash I had broken off a sharp piece of wood from a crate next to the dumpster and leaped to the closest vampire to me. I took him down before any of the other vampires could react. Well that should have got their attention. Two of the vampires pinned the human girl to the back wall of the alley, and the other three headed towards me violently. I staked another one before the second one from in front of me took a stake and staked my back, missing my heart by an inch. I was fortunately able to reach it so I ignored the pain from the stake in my back and with one quick pull I removed the stake; stabbing the one who stabbed me in the heart.Two down, one to go. Out of the corner of my eye I saw the girl elbow one of the vampires in the ribs, causing both of them to jump back in surprise. Guess they never thought the fight back. She picked up a stake off the ground and staked one of the vampires as he came at her with a vengeance; the gushy, less threatening one, I noticed. Then she turned her attention to the other.

While I was distracted, the vampire I was fighting pushed me back, about to go in for the kill but I was fast. I moved out of his line of fire only for him to come racing back. He was an old vampire, and strong, but my will to save this human girl, though I can't imagine why, kept me going. I heard the girl cry out and as he looked up momentarily distracted I ripped his still beating heart clean right out of chest. I took in my surrounding still high on adrenaline and when I realized I hadn't seen any more threats I turned my attention to the girl .She was kneeling on the ground next to another kill. Did she just stake both the vampires holding her down? I thought.

She looked up to me, and smiled flirtatiously. "I don't have to kill you too, do I?" she asked half joking half serious

"No, I'm good," I answered immediately. "Now," I added, and she stood up to look me almost in the eye and interrupted. "Who the hell are you?"