1000 Years Ago
"Damon!" Giuseppe Salvatore yelled while fighting off some of the wolves that have attacked his village. A ten-year-old boy with raven hair appeared with blood on his shirt from helping his father. "Yes father" he exclaimed. Giuseppe looked at his oldest son "I need you to take Stefan and run from here as fast as possible" he says while killing another wolf. "What about you father" he asks and as soon as he did a wolf came from behind and bit Giuseppe causing him to yell in pain. "Hurry" his father yells and Damon runs for his brother. Damon looks back and sees his father get ripped apart by the wolves. He feels his eyes burn but knows he must remain strong and find his brother. When Damon does find his brother he freezes as he sees him trying to wake up their dead mother.
Stefan hears noise behind him and cries out for Damon "She isn't waking up, why isn't she waking" he cries out. Damon ignores him and grabs Stefan "get on my back little brother now" he says and Stefan does what he is told. As soon has he does Damon just takes off without looking back. He runs through the woods getting as far away as possible from that place. He stops when he thinks they have gone far enough and lets Stefan down.
Stefan just sits down and cries being so afraid of what was a peaceful night turned nightmare in mere minutes. Damon just sits down next to his brother and holds him knowing he has to keep on for the both of them. He lets tears fall from his eyes as well for the loss of his parents. "Stefan" Damon says but gets no response, so he nudges him "Hey Stefan, get up we must keep going" he says. Stefan nods and starts walking with his older brother. "Damon will we ever see Mother or Father again" he asks.
Damon looks at him sadly "only in the afterlife little brother" he answers him. Stefan knows what that means his parents are dead. Damon looks at his brother seeing understanding come across his face. For a six-year-old Stefan is very intelligent. Now they will walk as far away as they can or at least find another village willing to take them in, which shouldn't be hard since the Salvatore name always did grant you royalty.
They keep walking till the sun starts peeking out the horizon. Stefan is the one that spots it "Damon look!" he exclaims. Damon looks to were his brother is pointing and sees people. "C'mon little brother" Damon says and they start the walk towards it. The people living in the village are stopping what they are doing and start to stare at the two little boys walking towards them holding hands and drenched in blood. A boy watching them called out "Father!". Both Damon and Stefan stopped at that.
A man looking like the leader walked towards them "Who are you?" he asks them. Stefan just holds Damon's hand a little harder. "We need help, our village were attack by wolves and killed everyone their including our parents" Damon answers the man. The man looks at them "what are your names?" he asks again. "My name is Damon Salvatore and this is my little brother Stefan Salvatore" Damon answers.
The man looks shocked for a moment until he collects himself. "You're the heirs of the Salvatore family?" he asks and Damon nods. "Very well I'll take you in" the man says and tells them to follow him into his home. Once Damon and Stefan get there they can see a lot more kids. The man starts introducing them. The oldest is Finn, then Elijah, and Kol. Then two more kids walk in the girl the same age as Stefan "Ah and this is Rebekah and Niklaus" he says. The man looked at the Salvatores "My wife's name is Esther and you can call me Mikael, we are the Mikaelsons" he finally finishes.
They don't know it but the two brothers' life's just changed.
Present
Damon was with Elena when she woke up and he can't help but feel relief that the spell actually worked and she wasn't going to turn. If Klaus ever found out that she was alive and Damon helped, he will most definitely dagger him for life because of it. Now he is going to have to get her trust back.
It's now Elena's 18th birthday and Damon is throwing her a party in hoping of raising her spirit some. He misses the old Elena and would do anything to get her back. "So how is trying to get Elena to forgive going?" Alaric asks him. Damon turns to him and frowns and looks away. Alaric chuckles "That bad huh" he says.
The party comes to its end and Elena and her closes friends are still in the living room when. The house phone starts ringing. Damon answers it "Hello" he asks. "Damon mate how are you?" Klaus' voice can easily be heard. He looks at everyone staring at him "Klaus" he says and makes everyone stiffen. "So I take my doppelganger is alive and well?" he asks him. Damon was about to deny it when Klaus answers faster "don't try to lie I know she is alive and I must thank you because now I can testy my experiment" he says.
"I won't let you touch a hair on her head" Damon replies angrily. "Oh we will see about that; see you soon mate" he says then hangs up. Then there is whooshing sound and a blonde girl is standing in front of them with a smirk. Damon gets in front of Elena "Rebekah" he says. "Hello brother in law how are you" she says amusingly. Damon just growls and runs at her when he feels someone grab him and throw him across the room making everyone gasp.
Damon looks up and sees his little brother, Stefan Salvatore standing next to Rebekah also smirking. Everyone is wondering who is the man next to Rebekah but that all changes when he talks.
"Hello Brother" Stefan says making everyone in the room gasp and stare with wide eyes. Damon looks slightly scared at what him being here means. "Stefan" he says his voice wavering. Damon can also sense and smell the blood of someone and this angers him. "What have you done?" he demands. Everyone is confused on what Damon is talking about. "Well you see on the way over here Rebekah and I saw some very drunk girls walking by so we had a little snack, you know how it is don't you brother?" Stefan says with a chuckle. Damon knows Stefan being wont be good for any one.