It was another seemingly regular day at the mystic grill and two vampire brothers bickered in the men's room while the mostly unknowing townspeople went about their business outside the door. Both brothers exited the room overly annoyed and in no mood to socialize. The problem was that it had been a long time since Damon Salvatore kept observations to himself. He had discarded all of his manners along with his humanity therefore when the youngest Lockwood shot him a confrontational look in the hallway he didn't miss a beat before commenting.

"Am I supposed to be intimidated by your overcompensated masculinity?" He said in his usual cool and confident style.

Tyler seemed to be surprised at the challenge. "What the fuck did you say?" He shot back and stopped walking.

"No, no, continue. It's quite cute actually, the whole macho tirade." He said adding to his casual demeanor with a dismissive hand gesture and a quick raise of his eyebrows.

Tyler was taken back by Damon's attitude but his face stayed hard. "What the fuck is your problem, man?" he said.

Damon rolled his eyes and shrugged before approaching Tyler as if he was being inconvenienced by the situation he had initiated. "I'm not fond of guys like you." He said as if he was breaking sad news. "Your whole king jock persona tempts me to take you down a few notches." He said revealing a glint of anger.

Tyler reacted as he usually would to someone not bowing down to him. "You wanna fucking do something about it?" he said preparing for a altercation.

"Yea I do. But trust me, you don't." Damon responded, completely sure of it.

In the next second Tyler went to strike Damon but the vampire easily pinned the teen to the wall with one hand choking the teen and the other holding the wrist of the hand he attempted to strike with. He was satisfied with the look of fear on Tyler's face. "What the fuck?" the teen tried to say but could barely speak. His eyes darted to see if anyone was watching or would stop Damon and when he again made eye contact with the vampire he became confused. A look of surprise broke Damon's cool as he came to the realization that he could not use mind control on Tyler. The two stared at each other for an intense moment before Damon began speaking. "What is your name?" he asked angrily, looking down and assessing the trouble he may now be in. He did not seem to be waiting for Tyler to respond and after a moment his eyes flashed back up to the teens face. "Lockwood." He seethed somehow making the connection.

At this point Tyler had no idea what was going on.

"Time to go to sleep kid." Damon said going into damage control mode. In less than one second Tyler was unconscious.