Chapter two.
Where have you been? Where did you go?
Those summer nights seem long ago,
And so is the girl you used to call, -Lana Del rey
Damon sat on the couch with his usual glass of bourbon in his hand staring into space.
"Damon!" Katherine yelled and he felt his anger rise, now his little brother isn't in the house he has Katherine nagging at him every second until Stefan returns and she bats her eyelashes and pouts a little to him and he is all over her.
"Damon!" she called strutting in the room and sighing audibly.
"No and whatever it is, I don't care" he said
"You didn't even listen" she hissed
"didn't need to" he said
"I was nice to you when you was human" she retorted bitterly, Damon let out a sarcastic laugh.
"You manipulated me and used both me and my brother, seen as you are human let's stick with your human name, Katerina" he mocked, her face turned red at how he said it, she didn't like it when Damon said it, she had one man in mind who she liked to say her human name like that… she growled mentally at herself.
"Earth to Katherine" Damon snapped and she glared at him.
"Guess I will just have to make a mess in the kitchen myself then" she said walking away, Damon growled and flashed infront of her.
"what happened to the granola bars I bought you?" he snapped
"They ran out a week ago!" she yelled
"oh well, you are getting a little pudgy" he said and she gasped in offence and scurried away to the nearest mirror.
"Though I will buy you some hair dye and skin aging cream" he called and heard her gasp in offence and chuckled.
That is how you get rid of a self-obsessed bitch he thought smugly.
-.-.-
Katherine was browsing through Damon's room, she walked towards his bed and her foot hit something and slipped, her ankle went down and she yelped in pain.
"Shit, ow, ow, ow" she whimpered rubbing her ankle through the suede ankle boots.
After she had finished sulking her eyes landed on something, a book.
Does Damon have a journal? She thought mischievously.
Her hands reached for it.
"What are you doing?!" Damon bellowed angrily and she jumped in surprise, her human heart pounding and a loss for breath.
"Get the hell out, Stefan isn't here so that means I can kill you and then claim you ran away with your devil spawn" he said yanking her up by her arm, she hissed and let out a high pitched 'ow!' he roughly shoved her away and she limped towards the door cursing Damon.
Damon looked at the moved floorboard and saw the book uncovered, he sighed and stared at it for a while, he didn't know how long and then it was suddenly in his lap and it was open.
All the pages were ripped out and he had burnt them, but there was a couple of pages left, his fingers traced the family photo he had when his family was happy, he, Stefan, his father and his mother, he and Stefan were only young then, well Damon was a teenager and Stefan was getting there, he remembered his mother, she was beautiful, his family was never the same after she fell off her horse.
Then he thought of her death anniversary, the last few he spent in sorrow.
-.-.-
Damon stormed out of the house; his cheek was on fire because his father decided to take out his anger and grief on him today, his fists were balled up and his knuckles turned white and his hands trembled, really he should have fought back but he couldn't hit his father, his vision became misty as the grief and anger wore him thin.
The leaves in the bushes near him rustled, he stopped and wiped away the tears before turning his head towards the leaves, he heard a yelp and then out stumbled Carina bird, leaves in her messy hair (he guessed it was once neatly styled) and a grey dress that looked brand new and very expensive.
"Dammit you stupid bloody bushes! This is my bloody new dress ugh!" she cried in anger viciously swatting the leaves and twigs from her dress, if it wasn't for his annoyance he would have laughed or at least cracked a smirk.
She froze when she realised someone was watching her, she turned around slowly about to apologise with pink cheeks when she saw it was Damon.
"Damon" she said relieved and then hid the red rose behind her back sharply.
"Damon" she said again a little more nervous this time.
He ignored her and carried on walking, well striding forward, he didn't want her to see the big red mark on his face; he knew she would make a big deal out of it and he didn't want that, he knew she would make him feel better but he just convinced himself he wanted to be alone.
"Damon!" she yelled lifting up her skirt, her cheeks red and hair crazy as she speed walked up to him.
"Go away" he snapped and she rolled her eyes, she hated it when he would hide his feelings like this.
She grabbed his arm and he shrugged her off roughly, the rest of her face turned red suddenly becoming angry.
"Damon Salvatore!" she cried standing still as he carried on walking, he looked over his shoulder slightly, she saw the path of his tears and her face softened, she rarely saw him cry and she felt her heart break slightly.
"Leave me alone Carina" he snapped and she sighed, he walked into the forest, she sighed again and puffed out her cheeks before picking up her dress again and taking off in a small sprint behind him.
She found him slumped against a tree, she chewed the inside of her cheek thinking of what to do.
She slowly approached him cautiously and then plonked down next to him, her brand new and expensive dress being squashed in mud.
"Carina..." he said before she pulled out the battered and broken red rose.
"Hhhe saidbefore she pulled out the very damaged red rose.
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p her dre red suddenly becoming angry.
nt r messy hair (he guessed ere" she said in a soft tone, her crisp British accent making him feel better slightly, his fingers curled around the stem of the rose, there was no thorns except one at the top, he avoided it.
"Thanks" he muttered, 'is this her vain attempt to cheer me up?' he thought bitterly, she then knelt infront of him, using his knees as support dragging her dress through more mud and leaves as her silk gloved hands rested on his knees, she noticed the mark on his cheek, she pursed her lips and tried to keep her anger at bay, she always was a hothead.
"Damon" she said shakily as she reached out to touch the mark, he flinched away, her hands shook and he noticed the pure fury in her eyes.
"I will hit that man so hard one day and you will not hold me back" she ground out through her teeth, Damon lost it, his head hung and he squeezed his eyes shut tightly in a failed attempt to keep the tears in, he breathed more like a shaky gasp as he cried silently, Carina's gloves had disappeared now and her warm hands touched his tear streaked cold cheeks.
"Damon please don't cry! That man is vile and disgusting! On a day like this he should keep you close and treasure the time he has left on this earth before I tear his heart out of his chest" she growled the last part lowly, she lifted his face and then crawled around him and un-gracefully dropped down onto her butt and wrapped her arms around his torso.
"It will get better; it won't hurt so much one day" she said softly, he nodded and basked in the warmth she was giving him by hugging him so tightly.
"I promise" she whispered.
-.-.-
His eyes lingered on the next page, he never had the heart to rip out and he knew if he switched his humanity off then this would bring it back.
On the double page was a picture of Carina, she sat there with her hands in her lap smiling slightly, she told him after that photo was taken that she felt like 'a right fool' sat there smiling at a lens.
His finger traced her cheekbone and then his eyes travelled to the photo on the right, it was of her and him, they were linking arms and she was smiling and he was looking to the side, at her, she was staring into the camera smiling and laughing.
Then a drop of water hit the paper, he frowned, his sight became blurry as more fell, he wiped them away immediately and cleared his throat slamming the book shut.
"DAMON!" Katherine whined and he growled shoving the book in another hiding place and swearing he would end Katherine.
-.-.-
Bonnie sat in her dorm room, she was texting Jeremy until the slight draft and chill in the air alerted her that someone was visiting her, she sat up on her bed.
"Grams?" she asked and the elderly woman smiled at her.
"Bonnie" she acknowledged.
"What's wrong?" Bonnie asked
"I have heard something, whispers, about that Salvatore" she said
"Grams we already know about the Stefan and Elena doppelgänger business" Bonnie said
"Not that" she snapped and Bonnie looked at her and narrowed her eyes.
"Are you okay grams?" she asked
"The elder Salvatore, Damien? No Damon, something that rightfully belongs to him, the spell is wearing off and me and our ancestors refuse to let what is inside perish" she said
"What? Grams what is inside?" Bonnie asked
"That is for me to know and you to find out, Bonnie the tomb is located near the outskirts of Mystic Falls, find it and take the Salvatore with you, then our ancestor Emily will be able to find peace at last" Grams told her and disappeared.
"Grams!" Bonnie yelled after her.
-.-.-
"But there's already a tomb" Stefan said confused as they walked into the Boarding House to see Damon and Katherine bickering.
"Damon" Elena said and he looked up and shoved Katherine away and she banged her hip roughly on the counter, she yelped in pain again, she was definitely showing Stefan all the bruises he had given her today.
"Oh thank god Stefan" Katherine said
"Hello Katherine" Stefan said and she walked in front of him away from Damon, she rubbed her hip unhappily.
"We have news" Stefan said and Caroline frowned at Katherine who was on her phone and chewing her nail.
"Spit it out" Damon said
"There is another tomb" Bonnie said, she filled them in and Damon frowned and Katherine didn't look bothered.
"Well call me if it has a cure to my human state in it" Katherine said walking off.
Bonnie filled Damon and the rest in about what her Grams had told her and they agreed to look in the morning.
-.-.-
Damon dreamt of one thing only, she was haunting him as far as he was concerned, plaguing his dreams for as long as he could remember, ever since he came back for her and found her and the entire Bird family gone with the wind, the house was empty and he was able to just walk straight in.
-.-.-
"When will they find her?" Cedric Bird seethed as he paced in Carina's empty bedroom, they had disposed of Jane's body, witches were written all over this.
"Cedric calm down, we already have the pack looking for her! They will find her and the witches will pay" Pricilla promised cupping her husband's cheeks in her gloved hands, he closed his eyes, Alison walked in.
"Mother, someone is here for you" she said stepping aside, a handsome man in his early 20's walked in and looked guilty.
"Harry what is it? Good news I hope?" Pricilla asked, he looked down.
"With regret miss… We have no traces, they have simply faded away… we can't find her miss" he said twisting his cap in his hands, he had a thick British accent just like the Bird family.
"She was going to be your wife! You have known her all your bloody life!" Pricilla snapped
"Yes and I tried! She was going to unite our packs! She was my first love! But she is gone Mrs Bird and you need to accept that" he snapped harshly.
"I will never accept that" Pricilla hissed.
"Mother… he is right, she has been gone for 3 months now" Alison said
"She would have a growing stomach now" Pricilla said with a glint in her eyes as they filled with fluids.
"We do ask if you would come back to England with us" he asked
"I think that might be best" Cedric agreed, Pricilla gasped
"Cedric no!" she hissed
"Carina is gone; we need to carry on with our lives." Cedric said and gave her a look that meant that was the end of the conversation.
Just one week later, Damon had walked back into Mystic falls with every intention of taking Carina with him on his journeys and spending eternity together.
But that fantasy was cut short when he walked past the graveyard and saw a new statue with fresh flowers.
He curiously walked through the gates and towards this statue, it stood tall, it was a woman with long hair and her face was shaped very well, he saw the red roses and then as he neared it his heart stopped.
In the marble below the skirts of the woman engraved into it read.
'CARINA BIRD.
LOST AND NOT FOUND, YOU WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED, REST IN PEACE AND MAY YOUR SOUL RETURN HOME TO YOUR FAMILY AND LOVED ONES.
YOU WILL BE MISSED.'
Damon fell down before the statue, his hand on it as his body shook with sobs.
"Awful thing that… she was such a nice girl" Some lady said from beside him, the veins began to grow as he felt his fangs come through.
"her family, just packed up and went after they announced her dead. Can you belie-" she began but was cut off by Damon springing up and tearing into her neck.
He dropped the lifeless body to the ground as blood oozed from her neck.
His eyes were full of tears as he walked out of the graveyard feeling numb, he walked to the Bird household and knocked on the door, no noise or life but he carried on knocking, then his hands shoved at the door that was sent flying and splintering and hit the grand staircase, he moved his foot forward and when it allowed him in he roared in anger and charged up the stairs and found himself in Carina's bedroom.
All that was in there was the wardrobe and bed that he and she had sat on and spoken on many many times.
He fell onto the bed and his grief overpowered him.
-.-.-
They walked down the dark and damp tunnels, Caroline would whimper as her foot came into contact with another rat skull.
"Apparently the witch who did it was called Amina Christie, it was out of vengeance for the death of her sister Zafrin, she was murdered so then Amina took something from the murderer, no one knows what except for the witches involved, but they were all slaughtered by the wolves… their whole bloodline, wiped out" Bonnie said and she noticed a frozen Damon.
"Damon?" she asked
"Zafrin Christie?" he asked
"Yeah… oh my god no…" Bonnie said shocked
"What? Am I missing out on something here?" Elena asked annoyed
"Yeah… I killed Zafrin Christie" he said wincing, one eye shut like someone was about to hit him.
"What?!" Caroline shrieked shocked
"So whatever is in this tomb is payback from the Christies" Stefan concluded, they came across an archway calved out of stone, this tomb was a lot more well done than the other tomb.
Damon was about to walk in when he hit something hard.
"Of course" he cursed, Bonnie narrowed her eyes and her eyes landed on a hole in the wall with a few symbols around it.
"Look" She said, Damon walked towards it and stuck his hand straight in it, it tightened around him and he hissed in pain, then something extremely sharp cut across his palm.
"Ah!" he yelled and blood oozed out and dripped, it released him after that and he cradled his cut open palm.
"You shouldn't have done that" Bonnie said and Damon hissed holding his non-healing hand.
"Oh my god it's not healing" Elena said
"Wait a go Captain obvious" Damon said and Caroline handed him a tissue and he snatched it and pressed it to his palm wincing.
"it worked" Stefan said as he walked down the narrow corridor until they walked into a very dark room.
Damon walked through them and then the room lit up with fire swirling around the sides.
"Crafty" Bonnie admitted and then her eyes landed on the thing Damon was staring at.
The exact same statue on Carina's tomb stone.
He felt his heart sink, as he stared at it, resting in front of a closed stone coffin.
"Impossible" Stefan whispered.
"It can't be" Damon whispered.
"Who is it?" Bonnie asked
"It's Carina" Damon said.
-.-.-
Ok, Hello and thank you to my 3 reviewers and all my favourites and all my follows! Welcome to my story I hope you like it! So I have gotten most of my flashbacks out of my system, they are annoying but I just thought I would show you the events of her and Damon's time together.
Well the big bombshell has arrived and I hope you like it! Carina will be making her grand appearance in the next chapter so stay tuned.
Oh I almost forgot! This is set somewhat in season five and will ghost along the plot… I have decided anyway.
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Until next time!
