This story takes place some time after "The Return" season 2 opener. I loved reformed Damon and wanted to play with him some more. Please let me know what you think.
Damon Salvatore always knew Katherine Pierce would be his undoing. A hundred and forty-five years of wasted effort and love.
The vervain slid through his body like a serpent of death. The plant itself wouldn't kill him, but the stake protruding from his chest and the wooden bullets that entered his body in rapid succession were going to put a damper on getting what he needed.
Blood.
Not to mention, Katherine threw him in a cave and sealed the door.
Death would actually be a welcomed peace.
He spent the better part of his life being miserable. He loved a woman who never loved him back and he hated a brother who did nothing but love him…with a few discretions, but who didn't? And for Katherine he killed and hurt too many faces to count…or remember.
Death wasn't a fair punishment, but at least he wouldn't be able to hurt anyone anymore.
Hurt Elena anymore.
The one person who gave him a chance, several chances, when he didn't deserve it, didn't deserve her.
Pain crowded his thoughts; he started to cough up blood.
And for awhile darkness seeped into him and the world fell away.
Elena woke up on the cool, hard ground blanketed in darkness.
She did remember Katherine in her bedroom, and before Elena could scream for help Katherine hit her.
Elena sat up; her head throbbed. It was so dark, she couldn't see her hand in front o fher face.
Fear sank in through every pore of her body.
Katherine was the vain of her existence. The damn vampire had managed to poison everything in her life.
She'd tried to kill her father, her biological father. Elena didn't think she could ever call John Gilbert her father, but it was the principal of the matter.
Katherine had sent her mother, Isobel, to invade her life.
The bitch of a vampire destroyed lives long before Elena's too.
And poor Caroline. Stefan and Damon were helping her deal with being a vampire, but Caroline's mother, the Sheriff and member of the vampire-hating council, hated vampires almost as much as John Gilbert. Sheriff Liz Forbes didn't have a problem with killing vampires, and now her daughter was one.
Stefan and Damon were Katherine's creations too. She spent a long time manipulating, compelling, and damaging the brothers.
Stefan managed to come out of her whirlwind disaster angry and ready for a better life.
Damon wasn't so lucky.
