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Summary: AUish. Damon gets bitten by Tyler after Klaus breaks his curse. In his delirious state, memories come back to him. Sad, painful memories that Damon buried deep. Memories of someone close to Damon's heart, whom he was closer to and trusted even more than Stefan. Someone who, one day, just disappeared.
Damon opened his eyes and looked around. He was in a field. One that he has not seen in a hundred years. The colors here were dull, from the discolored green grass, to the dull blue sky, to the almost rust colored building around him. Along with the dull colors, the air felt thicker. Glancing to his arm, he saw the bite mark. Though it was there, he could not feel it grow, nor did it burn like it had been. What did he remember last? ... A girl...The one he loved, his brother's girlfriend. The girl put him in his bed, fruitlessly trying to convince him that he would survive the 'Killing Curse'. Elena... the girl's name was Elena.
"Another memory?" Damon murmured to himself, "Why is this one different from the rest?"
Taking a step forward, Damon cautiously walked into the old Salvatore Boarding House. Something was different, wrong somehow. A Figure walked by, black hair reaching to his ears that slightly curled at the end, crystal blue eyes that shined with mischief. Was...was that himself, when he was human? Deciding to follow him, the human Damon led him into a room. In the room, Damon saw... a familiar man. At the other man's giggle and playful jab at his human counterpart, realization of the repressed memory came slamming into him.
"Devon..." Damon murmured in disbelief as his eyes widened in joy that soon turned to overwhelming sadness and regret.
"You got back just a little while ago, Dam! Come on, let us have some fun." The one now called 'Devon' insisted as he pulled human Damon along.
"Your fun always has a beating at the end of it." Damon laughed," And I want to see Lady Katherine. We can play ball after."
"Oh yes, Lady Katherine." Damon heard a sneer in Devon's voice that he did not catch before.
Sighing, human Damon started, "Dev-"
"You spend all your time with the woman, Damon. Can you not spend some time with me, like we use to?"
"Dev," human Damon stated before seeing Devon's pout, "Oh, okay... you act like you are five you know."
"And yet, I'm older!"
With that, the two went out to the field to wrestle and play ball. Damon knew this day. The day he loathed, the day he would give anything to change. Knowing what would happen outside, Damon decided to see what happened this day on Stefan's side. Standing at the base of the stairs, Damon saw his father along with a few others. Following them, he watched as they kicked Stefan's door in. Katherine was gasping on the bed as she managed to mutter the word 'vervain' as Stefan stared at everyone in confusion.
"Wait, Father, Stop!" Stefan pleaded for Katherine.
"No... To think my son would be so weak as to be controlled by a monster. Get out of my sight." Giuseppe Salvatore scorned before turning away and helping his men take Katherine away.
Damon followed Stefan outside to where human Damon played with Devon. Stefan's frantic calls raised alarm in both the men. After hearing about the situation, Human Damon and Stefan were determined to save her.
"Dam, Stef, you can't just storm in and save her! Think about this first, think of the lives you'd have to take to get to her. The people you grew up knowing, your friends. You could even be killed!" Devon pleaded to them.
"You wouldn't get it Dev... We love her and would do anything for her. Even if it means our lives, right Stef?" Damon ask which earned him a nod from Stefan, "I cannot ask you to help though."
"You already have..." Devon said gravely," I'll try to distract the others, just move fast."
Damon watched in regret as his human self nodded with a grateful smile and promised that everything would be okay. If he only knew, knew he consequences of his actions, he could have stopped it. Devon turned to the right...directly where Damon was watching the scene and sighed before taking the lead to Katherine's cage. Damon shook his head, Surly Devon had not seen him-the thought alone sounded unbelievable- how could he? Approaching the guards that were posted to watch Katherine holding cell, Devon quickly knocked them out before signaled to Stefan and human Damon. Knowing what was to come next, Damon watch as Devon yelled in fear as he saw the two fall to the ground. Shaking his head and mumbling out the word, 'no' as he held the boys, Devon watched helplessly as their lives left their eyes and blood pooled out of their gunshot wounds.
"They decided their fate." Giuseppe said as he approached Devon.
"It didn't have to end this way, it was your choice to kill them!" Damon heard Devon retort.
"They were traitors!"
"They were your sons! What kind of father are you?!"
"They chose their fate! They stopped being my sons the moment they sided with the enemy!" Giuseppe snapped as he grabbed Devon, "Come. We are leaving. Back to the house."
"I am not leaving them!"
"Yes, you are. Now move." Giuseppe again snapped as he pulled Devon up.
Damon's father pushed Devon forward and raised his rifle, forcing Devon to leave. So many question ran through his mind as he followed them to Giuseppe's room in the Boarding house. Did Giuseppe really kill Devon? And where was the body. When Damon was first turned, he came back for Devon, he looked everywhere but could not find him. When he searched the boarding house, he had smelt Devon's blood along with his fathers. His father was dead, but Devon's body was nowhere to be found. There was so much blood though, too much for a human to survive. Devon had been resistant to Katherine's... 'Spell' -which she had over Stefan- so he would not come back to life. Suddenly everything began to change.
Everything around him became blurry and the noises around sounded like they came through a tunnel as if the 'vision' or 'hallucination' was ending.
"No. No no no no. "Damon pleaded to no one. From his crouched position by the window, Devon look to Damon's direction as his hands stopped gripping his own hair. Seeing the distant look in Devon's eyes Damon turn around and stared in horror.
"Please no." Damon mumbled to himself.
"Stefan? Is that really you?" Devon whispered.
"Abominat-" Giuseppe's sentence was cut short as Stefan jumped on him and ripped his throat open.
Devon watched in silence horror mixed with dread and regret as Stefan turned to him as Stefan smiled.
"Stefan, No!" Damon shouted in vain as Stefan sank his fangs into Devon's neck before everything faded to black.
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