WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO READ IS THE ENTIRE TRANSCRIPT OF CHRISTOPHER LARITA'S INTERVIEW WITH DAMON SALVATORE. ALL OF THE EVENTS RECOUNTED IN THIS INTERVIEW ARE FROM HIS POINT OF VIEW AND SHOULD BE TAKEN WITH A GRAIN OF SALT.

New York City had long ago been nicknamed 'the city that never sleeps'. Which means, theoretically, it was the best city for vampires to live and flourish. That is, if you believed the Anne Rice novels. Sure, she was probably the closest to correct as any of the stupid vampire novel writers out there but that doesn't mean she was exact. If she were, I wouldn't be able to walk around in the sunlight with my day ring on. And let me tell you, it's a lot easier to blend in when you're able to walk around with the crowd in the daylight. It also makes breakfast easy to find.

Oh, how rude of me. I haven't even introduced myself. Then again, if you ask my brother, I'm rude to begin with so it really isn't outside of my comfort zone right?

My name is Damon Salvatore, and I suppose you came to talk to me to write an article or something?

This is actually research for a book.

A book? Dear god. If you're going to do that you better get my description right. Wavy locks of raven hair and bright blue eyes that makes the sky pale in comparison. Got it? Good.

Well, let me just get comfortable… There. All right. Ask away.

Well, we're in New York City. You seem to be pretty fond of it. Care to explain that story?

You don't want to know about my background? Where and when I was born? How I became a vampire? None of that good stuff? Tsk, tsk, tsk. I've been around for a long time buddy and let me tell you, you're severely lacking in the interviewing department.

All right, if you want to go that way. When and where were you born?

1840, in Mystic Falls, Virginia.

Mystic Falls?

Yup, Mystic Falls.

I've never heard of it.

No one has within the last ten years. My ex-girlfriend decided to burn it to the ground when she was pissed.

She sounds like a real bitch.

Oh, you have no idea. And sadly, I loved her for most of my life.

Was she the love of your life?

Nope. Thank god. I thought she was for a long time, but she wasn't. That was someone else entirely. She was from a completely different world and grew up in a completely different time than I did. Although, I'll tell you, I wish I had met her before my ex. She… She would have stopped me from doing a lot of the stupid shit I did over the years. Then again, if I had, I wouldn't be here today.

If my calculations are correct, you were born pre-Civil War. And you would have been in your mid-twenties when the war occurred. Did you join the Confederate Army?

Yup. I was a member of the Confederate Army, and at the time I was proud of it. I thought I was fighting the good fight and it was going to get my dad's approval. He didn't like me very much. He gravitated towards my younger brother, Stefan. Then again, I think he blames me for the death of my mother so…

How did your mother die?

According to the Pony Express? An animal attack. How she probably really did die? A vampire attack.

I… I'm sorry for your lose.

Don't be. It wasn't the last lose I suffered.

When were you turned? How old were you?

I was turned in 1864 and, if you can do the proper math, I was twenty-four.

I'm going to take a shot in the dark and say this is where the bitch ex-girlfriend comes in?

Psychotic bitch ex-girlfriend to be precise. You got any alcohol? Whiskey is preferred.

It's in the cabinet over there. Help yourself. [pause] Do all vampires drink?

It helps curb the cravings. And since I'm probably going to be here for a while, and I'm sure you don't want to be my snack, it's a good idea I drink.

What was her name? The psychotic bitch ex-girlfriend, I mean?

Katherine. Katherine Pierce. We believed her to be a human who was orphaned during the Atlanta Campaign and came to take refuge at our home during the war. She was… She was gorgeous. The most beautiful girl I had ever seen. She was charming, witty, kind… Everything I had ever wanted in a woman. Sadly, I didn't seem to be everything she ever wanted in a man.

What do you mean?

[sighs] Katherine rather liked the idea of pinning my brother and I against each other. She compelled both of us to fall in love with her. Or at least, have feelings for her. It helped push me to fall in love with her. All the while she was using Stefan and I as her meals and a way to get closer to our father to kill him.

She was never found out?

That's the thing. My dad? He was basically this huge vampire hunter/hater guy and he had been suspecting Katherine for quite a while. One night, he spiked Stefan's drink with vervain—

Vervain?

It's this herb that we're allergic to basically. We cough, gag, all that good shit. Basically, if we try to bathe in it, we die.

Right.

Anyway, so he spiked Stefan's drink and then when she went for a snack, she started coughing and choking. She, and almost thirty other vampires were locked up in Fell's Church. It was supposed to burn, but that didn't exactly work out. There was this tomb made beneath the church that was supposed to seal in the vampires.

I guess it didn't?

Oh no, it did. It did. The only problem is that Katherine was supposed to be in there as well, and she wasn't. I, sadly, didn't find that out until over a century and a half later.

But I don't understand… How did you turn into a vampire?

The night when the church was supposed to burn? Katherine had fed us her blood earlier on in the day. Stefan and I were both shot for trying to help the vampires. We died, and Stefan transitioned. And then forced me to do the same.

Do you miss it?

Miss what?

Being human.

[long pause]

Damon?

There was a time that I did.

And now?

I'll get back to you on that. Anyway, fast-forward about hundred and fifty years. Stefan is back in Mystic Falls following the doppelganger of Katherine; so of course I show up to give him problems. I end up killing his best friend to keep our secret safe and get in better with the vampire hunters that ran the town. What can I say? I'm a real dick.

How do you find out Katherine isn't in the tomb?

I got the local witches, against their better judgment, to open it. Katherine isn't in there. I'm crushed. The witches are too weak to close it up again. And bam! About thirty hungry and vengeful vampires are set loose on Mystic Falls.

… Wow.

Yup.

That's insane.

Yup.

Tell me more.

Well, after a while, Katherine finally showed her face and her true colors. Stefan and I tried to kill her, but of course it doesn't work. She didn't get what she wanted and she's kind of a child. So she burnt the city to the ground.

What did she want?

The moonstone. It was the key to breaking a curse that we thought kept vampires weak to the sun and werewolves weak to the full moon.

You say that like it's not true.

Ah, ah, ah. I haven't gotten to that part of the story yet. Be patient. Or you'll be lunch.

Fair enough. So Katherine is really alive and didn't get what she wanted so she burnt the town. Where does that leave everyone else?

Simple. We had to get up and leave. So we did. We went to New York City… And it was probably the only thing that I could ever thank Katherine for doing.

Why thank her?

We went there to follow her and make sure she didn't try and burn a city of that size, but we later found out she was going there to find a powerful witch to try and break the curse on her own.

Let me guess—

You're one for one with this guessing game of yours. It's getting kind of repetitive.

This is where you meet the love of your life.

Heh. Okay. Two for one…

Tell me how you met her.

Even if we weren't fighting for the same girl anymore, as a part of being Stefan's brother, I felt it was my duty to bother the shit out of him. He was seventeen when he was turned, and I was twenty-four. So he enrolled into an upper-class prep school.

St. Judes?

[snap] That's the one. It's the brother school to—

Constance Billard.

Are you going to let me finish?

Sorry.

Thank you. Some people are so rude. One day while Stefan was at school I decided to walk around the city. I walked past the Metropolitan museum and that was where I saw her.

Her?

Blair Waldorf.

xxx

"Tell me something. When you got dressed this morning, did you really believe that orange worked well with the uniform or were you simply getting dressed with your eyes closed this morning?" asked a very attractive brunette, perched delicately on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum with a certain heir of entitlement surrounding her. Had it not been for his vampire hearing, Damon wouldn't have heard the insult, but he was glad he did.

She's got spunk, he thought, a smirk passing over his aged lips.

The girl in front of the brunette began weeping and begging for forgiveness. In between the annoying sobs, she said the name of the girl she was attempting to appeal to.

"Please, Blair."

xxx

Blair? Interesting name.

Blair was having none of it, another thing that actually impressed Damon, which wasn't an easy thing to do.

To this day, I can't tell you why I made it so my crows followed her around but I did. And I don't regret it at all.

Your crows?

I have this nice ability to control crows. I can make them watch whomever I want. In doing so, it's like I can watch whomever or whatever I want through them.

Another vampire thing?

Nope. That's a Damon thing. Granted, it was a gift given to me after I became a vampire but… I have yet to meet anyone else who can do it.

So what happened next?

She went shopping after school and it was incredibly boring but I followed her anyway. That is until she actually caught me doing so.

xxx

"Excuse me, do you have a problem that you've been following me for the last five stores? If you wanted advice for your drag routine, all you had to do was ask. I would have said no and sent you on your way but you would have been out of my hair by now."

Damon simply smirked down at the brunette.

"You've got spunk."

Blair's face contorted in disgusted confusion.

"Thank you?" she responded, shaking her head and rolling her eyes. "Do you have anything else left to say or will you stop stalking me now?"

"Now, why would I want to stop talking to a beautiful woman as yourself?" he asked, taking a hold of her hand and bending at his waist, bringing her hand to his lips. As he kissed the soft skin, his bright blue hues watched the girl in front of him. Blair ripped her hand from his grip.

"And who do you think you are?"

"Damon Salvatore at your service. And you are?"

"Sorry, I don't give out my name to stalkers." Blair gave him her signature bitch smile before scoffing and walking past him. Damon continued to smirk as he watched her, and her Constance uniform, leave his presence.

"I would have thought the daughter of Eleanor Waldorf would have been more polite than that," he yelled after her. Blair flinched in her movements, slowly turning to face him.

"I suppose I shouldn't be shocked. My mother is a well-known designer. However, the fact that you've been stalking me for the better part of the afternoon is still disturbing." Damon moved closer to the brunette enjoying the fact that he was able to so simply get under her skin within a few hours.

"Anyone who can rip a seemingly put together girl to shreds with just a handful of sentences is someone I prefer to associate with. And if things happen to happen…" Damon gave a small nonchalant shrug. A small hand soon slapped its way across his face, leaving only the smallest of stings behind, if only out of shock that such a small being could get so angry so quickly.

"Stay away from me, Damon Salvatore," she said in a low growl before twirling on her Manolo's and stomped out of the store, a flourish of anger wafting behind her.

xxx

So basically, she immediately hated you?

I pissed her off. It was fun for me. I mean, I followed Stefan just to annoy the living crap out of him and make his life a living hell. Then again, if you think about it, he did help me turn into a vampire when all I wanted to do was die so I guess you can just look at it as simple revenge.

And Blair?

I liked annoying people, still do, and she was easy to annoy. Obviously I was going to keep bothering her.

A/N; From here on in, it's going to be mostly the actual scenes and less interview, similar to the movie Interview with a Vampire. I really hope you guys enjoy this!