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I seriously need to stop making new stories. I promise I'll update Extended Vacation and Things Better Left Unsaid next. But you all know how Delena is.

It is April 1, 2311. The world didn't end in December 2012, the vampires came out from hiding, demanding to take over the world. Thus started the war between humans and vampires. It lasted fifteen years before the Original, Klaus, and the all the leaders of the world got together and decided the fate of many lives. The western hemisphere (North and South America along with the Islands) was given to the vampires and the rest of the world was for the humans. The two worlds were not to intertwine unless given government permission—which was rare. You needed to be the government itself to be allowed on the other side. Blood bags were shipped for the vampires but direct drinking from humans was prohibited. But Klaus is still looking for the Petrova doppelganger to break their curse and is willing to break the treaty and restart the war.

He didn't belong here. Hell, he wasn't allowed on this side of the world at all. But Damon Salvatore had been smuggling since the war. People had high demands for real humans to feed on and Damon was willing to go to the other side and kidnap a few of them. It was risky business but he had been managing it on and off for about three centuries now. He even had regular customers by now. Sometimes, he was even sent in by politicians that had spotted a rather tasty looking human girl on their visit to the human side. Money usually didn't matter all that much, though. It was the chase that Damon loved. It was the chase that he couldn't abandon after the treaty. The thrill of the hunt.

It was easier to blend in to his surroundings than one would think. It was easy to mimic the humans—pretend he was one again. It was just how he had to resist blood so much that he didn't like. And it wasn't like he couldn't feed while he was there. Normally, he brought blood bags with him, or stole some from the donation centers but when he ran out, he would have to pick someone off of the streets—that would be last resort, however. If that was also the case, he would take the body with him or burn it, or try to make it look like another cause of death. To put it shortly, it was a huge list of things to do to keep him from getting caught from both sides of the government. Klaus would not be thrilled if he found out about so many smugglers. It had been an on and off thing with them getting caught where Damon would have to disappear for a while but he had learned to manage his social life within the vampire community and his smuggling job. He was one of the last people the government would find guilty.

"Stefan!" Damon had decided to use different names when travelling to the human world and he never went to the same place twice within sixty five years. He was currently in a town called Mystic Falls in what once was a part of Russia (but the country had been split in half for the US after the treaty—it had caused quite a lot of dispute thanks to the former rivalry between Soviet Union and America). Damon had taken the name of his brother who had been killed during the war in 2012. It had been three hundred years now but he was still a rather sore subject to bring up.

Damon spun around, blinking at the blonde girl that had called him. "You… Forgot your wallet." She was blushing yet she was bold and their flirting earlier had assured her that she was on the right track. But of course, Damon hadn't forgotten his wallet, he left it there on purpose. Caroline Forbes was his target.

"Oh, right. Thank you, Carla.." He said, taking his 'wallet' and sliding it into his pockets with a smile.

"It's Caroline…" She murmured, frowning.

"Right! Sorry." He winked. "Hey… I kind of hoped you could show me around? I'm in town for a few days." Damon smiled at her.

Caroline beamed, immediately forgetting that he had forgotten her name a second ago. "I'd love to!" She exclaimed.

"Great! Thank you so much." Damon purred. "Do you mind if we stop by at my hotel room first, though?"

"Not at all!" Caroline was secretly hoping there was a hidden meaning behind that. This guy was totally hot.

They walked towards the hotel and Damon sort of blocked out her chipper talking—honestly she was starting to irritate him. What the hell did Tyler Lockwood want with her? Whatever.

That's when he saw her. Katherine. But it couldn't be. Katherine had died in front of his very eyes. Katherine had died after Stefan had died. Katherine had died because Stefan had died. Katherine had died because she loved Stefan, not him. The woman across the street was not Katherine. But not just because Damon knew that she was dead but her entire demeanor was different. She was soft, gentle, kind. She was more casual in dressing than Katherine and she looked more comfortable. Her eyes were warm. And that's when Damon knew that wasn't Katherine. But he also knew that he needed to know who she was.

"Stefan?" Caroline furrowed her brows together.

"Yes, sorry." He shook his head and she started blabbering away again.

"You know what, Caroline, I have your number. Why don't I call you later tonight? I just remembered that it might take a while in my room." He said sincerely.

She frowned, glancing over at the Katherine look alike then nodding. "… I guess."

Damon wasn't stupid enough to go after the girl right there. He stalked her stealthily, making sure that no one noticed. The more he followed her, the more he found out about her—through her actions, her words, the way people acted around her. She seemed like the polar opposite of Katherine and he hadn't even talked to her yet.

She worked at the bar—Mystic Grill. He had watched her throughout her shift and then followed her out in the dead of night. But what surprised him was how she paused in the middle of a short cut (which he guessed she used daily—stupid girl) and called out. "I know you're here." She called. She was a brave one. But he could smell the fear off of her—hear it leaking into her voice.

There was no use in hiding now. But he knew he would have to take her now.

She gasped when he appeared in front of her, her doe brown eyes widening but she remained frozen. She was such a contradiction—she tried so hard to seem tough. This girl had gone through a lot, he could tell by looking into her eyes. "What do you want?" She said in a bare whisper.

"You." He answered flatly.

Okay, so if you didn't understand what was going on with Damon and his history here it is:

Everything with the Salvatore brothers that happened in the show happened here since it was before the Vampire/Human war. So Katherine did turn them. She did fake her death and Damon still went looking for her and all but never actually found her until the war started. That's where he found out that Katherine loved Stefan and not him. Stefan was killed in the war and Katherine killed herself after him. Since then, he's been smuggling humans on and off :) Please review and ask any questions that you have!