Happy Thanksgiving! During the holidays, I usually trade my laptop for stovetop. But this year i decided not to. I wrote this whole thing in one day. I hope you enjoy the requested episode "History Repeating". It did take a little while for me to narrow down what parts of the episode i was going to publish but i think i made the right choices. Last time, i did not get as many comments as i would have liked. Just a word or two works. Just to know that you guys are still living.
SPOILER ALERT! Who did you guys think stopped Elena's car last episode? I cant wait for this week. Anyways, read, comment, enjoy!
I looked out the window with a warm cup of coffee in my hand. The sun was shining, Stefan was sleeping peacefully, and well, if I weren't here, you might call this a nice day. "Rise and shine!" I called loudly to wake Stefan from a calming sleep. He sat up really fast, obviously alarmed. "You'll be late for school."
"What're you – what're you doing?" Stefan asked. I held up an extra cup of coffee.
"Peace offering." I said. Stefan stood up and let out a deep exasperated breath. "Common, you need it for blood circulation. Does dead flesh good…" I smiled. He didn't buy it. I rolled my eyes. "Alright I'm sorry." God I hated saying that.
"Step a side, please." Stefan walked passed me and into the bathroom. I was obviously not forgiven. Not that I cared.
"I got the town off our back it was for the greater good but I'm sorry!" I looked back at the bathroom to see if he was listening or if he was really even there. "And to prove it, I'm not going to feed on a human for at least," I thought for a second. Damn. A month? Too long. A day? Too short. "A week." It hurt to say the words. "I'll adopt the Stefan diet only nothing with…feathers." I cringed and took a sip of the coffee. It tasted like nothing but at least it was warm nothing.
"Cause I realize that killing your closest an oldest friend is beyond evil and yet, somehow, it's worthy of humor!" Stefan walked to his dresser. Did he really think I would have a limit to doing anything to get what I wanted?
"Are you mimicking me?" I asked.
"Yes 'Stefan'," "Damon" put on a shirt. "Now that the secret society of vampire haters is off our back's I can go back to my original routine of 'How can I ruin Stefan's life this week?'" I decided to play too.
"And I can go back to sulking and Elena-longing and forehead brooding." I was dead on. "This is fun, I like this."
"And I will finally reveal the ulterior motive behind my evil and diabolical return to Mystic Falls." Stefan looked at me, obviously hoping that I would reveal my final plan. Nice try.
"Yeah…I'm done." I stopped leaning on the table and started walking away. But I turned around one last time. "This is just like you 'Damon'," I made my voice as Stefen-esqe that I could. "Always have to have the last word."
I sat at the bar…alone like always. I had a bottle of some sort of shitty alcohol in my cup. That stupid Bonnie would not give me the damn necklace. I needed it so bad. Too bad I couldn't rip her throat out or I would have. I had done what Emily wanted, I kept her family safe. I held my end of the deal, now it was time she held hers.
I was about to take other sip when I heard "So Stefan!" I turned around to see who was calling my brothers name but it turned out to be…my brother. So I guess we were playing this game again. "You know, I've been thinkin', maybe we should start over. Give this brother thing another chance. We used to do it oh-so-well once upon a time." He tried to pull off the sexy Damon face, but it was just too much for him. But I played along. I scrunched my eyebrows together and made my voice sound pained and mysterious.
"I don't, Damon! I can't trust you to be a nice guy. You – you kill everybody and you're so mean. You're so mean!" 'Damon' was smiling and nodding. "You're really hard to imitate and then I have to go to that lesser place." I looked forward and rolled my eyes. The real Stefan asked for a coffee from the bartender.
"So what's with the bottle?" He asked. I didn't know if he was still playing some stupid game but there must have been something he wanted or he would be ignoring me or yelling at me to get out of town. I let a big breath out and looked at the bottle.
"I'm on edge. Crash diet you know I'm trying to keep a low profile."
"You could always just leave, find a new town and turn into your own personal gas and sip." There it is.
"I'll manage." I guess Stefan has been saying the same thing to me since I got here why not stop now? The guy gave Stefan his coffee. I looked at him a little suspiciously.
"You know you don't have to keep an eye on me." I said pouring myself another glass of whatever I was drinking.
"I'm not here to keep an eye on you." For once, I couldn't tell if he was lying.
"Then why are you here?" Stefan shrugged. The brooding eyebrow's returning.
"Why not?" he grabbed my alcohol and walked away. I didn't know what type of game he was playing, but I guess I'll play along.
Stefan hit another bulls-eye in the first shot…again. "Lucky shot." I said, a little jealous ill admit. He's had about fifteen "lucky shots".
"Or a carefully honed skill over many decades." I walked up to the board and put another tally mark on Stefan's side.
"Your beating me." I said frustrated. The little brother rarely beats the big brother.
"Well, yeah. Cause I'm better then you." Stefan said smugly.
"I'm on to you. Reverse psychology? I mean it's a little transparent but I admire the effort." We both faced each other now. His face was smiling but I could tell something was going on in that empty shell he called a head.
"Bored of the brooding forehead?" He laughed. But I still didn't understand what he was trying to do.
"Seriously what game do you think your playing?" I asked. Stefan looked fake surprised.
"That's a funny question considering the fact that I have been asking you that, for months!" ah. That's true. Now we're kinnda getting somewhere. I considered that for a second, no. He's just trying to get me to tell him my master plan. I looked at the dartboard and thought about how I was going to beat him at this.
"Its frustrating isn't it?"
"Touché." And I threw another dart. He wasn't getting it out of me that easily.
We walked out onto the football field. I did not buy Stefan's "Lets be best friends again!" act. Not one bit. But it was a little fun pretending it was like old times. But I still wasn't telling him. Yet.
"What're we going here?"
"Bonding. Catch." He threw the football at me and I caught it with one hand. The other holding the liquor. I half smiled and threw the ball back at him. He caught it easily and waited as I walked towards him.
"Common," he smiled. "Give it a try." I put down the bottle and felt for the laces on the ball.
"Don't forget who taught you how to play this game." I whined up and threw the ball halfway across the field. Before Stefan could look, I ran and caught it before it could touch the ground. But he was right behind me and tackled me to the ground. Usually, I would be perfectly fine, but considering I've been eating squirrels the past 24 hours, I was a little off my game. We both lay on the ground and moaned. Stefan knocked the wind right outta me.
"Ow that hurts." I said holding my diaphragm.
"Downside to my diet, getting hit actually hurts a little bit." Ha! He said downside? Not downsides. I could name a million. This was ridiculous. We stayed on the ground just starring into the empty atmosphere. I breathed out.
"I'm impressed Stefan." He looked at me. "Fun with booze and darts and sentimental with football and now," I laughed a little. "A starry night." I sat up really fast and stared down at him. "What do you want Stefan?" I asked completely serious. He sat up too, facing me. I raise my eyebrows as I felt the lecture coming.
"It wasn't real, Damon." I waited for him to continue. "Our love for Katherine." I rolled my eyes and laughed a little bit.
"Oh my god." Not this again. I was so tired of this conversation.
"She compelled us we didn't have a choice." I looked at the sky again. "It took me years to sort that out, to truly understand what she did to us-"
"Oh no Stefan," I cut him off and patted his leg. "We are not takin' that on tonight." I stood up and started walking away.
"What do you want with Katherine's crystal?" I stopped.
"How do you know about that?" That was it. That was the real reason he was sticking around.
"Common," he stood up. "You knew Elena would tell me." So I guess it was time. I was done hiding.
"How do you know it was Katherine's? Emily gave it to her on her last night; I was with her you…weren't." I smiled. But the look on Stefan's face surprised me. He looked so…not pissed.
"I was the last one to see her, Damon." The smiled melted off my face. No. I was with her that night. She was with me. Not Stefan. That was the last time we were together. The last time she was with anyone.
"Now what do you want with Katherine's crystal?" he asked again. Fine. If he was the last person with her, then he wasn't going to feel good about it. I cocked my head to one side.
"She didn't tell you?"
"We had other things on our mind." I frowned. He wasn't getting mad, but I was. I got a sudden image of my brother and the love of my life together. I ran towards Stefan ready to kill him right there.
"I can rip your heart out and not think twice about it." I threatened.
"Yeah," Stefan nodded. "I've heard that before." I looked down, ready to actually do it, but then thought again. I wouldn't do it. Not now. Not before my big unveiling of my plan.
"I have a bigger surprise Stefan." I backed off a little and started walking away, once again, leaving him confused. But then I turned back around. "I'm gonna bring her back." I smiled a smug smile and left Stefan with a wondering mind.
I ran towards the remains of the church. If she was going to be there, then the necklace would be too. I saw the form of Bonnie walking in the woods but I knew it wasn't Bonnie.
"Hello Emily." I said. She didn't look that surprised to see me. She knew I would come. "You look different."
"I won't let you do it." She said.
"We had a deal." I said aggressively. I tried to intimidate her, but it was hard. She had powers that vampires couldn't even dream of.
"Things are different now. I need to protect my family."
"I protected your family!" I reminded her. "You owe me."
"I know." She said quietly. Even though she looked like Bonnie, my eyes saw Emily. "I'm sorry."
"Your about to be a lot more then that!" I ran towards her at full speed, but she was ready. Damn witch stuck out her hand and forced me into a stuck out tree branch. I moaned with pain and I hung there, helpless. I hated feeling helpless and all I knew, was Emily was about to destroy the last way for Katherine to come back. I tried with all that I could to push myself off the erected branch, but it was hard, and all those bunnies I had eaten this week weren't helping in the least.
It could have been hours, but eventually, Stefan me and pulled me off the branch. I fell on the ground and moaned. I felt like I was about to gag. "Ah, that hurts." I said with the little breath I had. "This is why I kill people."
"Stefan." Emily said. She paused while creating the crystal killer thing, I would have had a chance to take her down if I was strong enough, but I was still weak from the freaking branch that was stuck through my stomach.
"Hello Emily." Stefan said, a little nervous.
"These people don't deserve this; they should never have to know such evil."
"What do you mean evil?" Oh shit, she was about to give away the other half of my plan.
"Emily, I swear to god, I'll make you regret this." I tried to stand up (but failed) while holding my stomach.
"I won't let you unleash them into this world!" She yelled fiercely. Now I wasn't scared of her, I was mad.
"Them?" Stefan looked back at me. "What part of the story did you leave out Damon?"
"What does it matter?"
"Emily tell me what you did!" Stefan yelled at her.
"To save her, I had to save them."
"You saved everyone in the church?"
"With one comes all."
"I don't care about them." I finally spoke up. "I just want Katherine." I grabbed onto Stefan as my stomach healed itself a little. Emily gave me a loathing look (which I usually would have enjoyed) and went back to work.
"I knew I shouldn't believe a single word that comes out of your mouth!" Stefan grabbed onto my collar threateningly. "This isn't about love is it? This is about revenge."
"The two aren't mutual in this case." I mumbled, trying to get out of Stefan's grasp.
"Damon you can't do this!"
"WHY NOT?!" I pushed Stefan angrily. How did he not see this my way? "They killed twenty seven people and they called it a war battle they deserve whatever they get!"
"Twenty seven vampires Damon! They were vampires! You can't just, bring them back!" Stefan kept his hands locked on my arms. I pulled my brother closer to me.
"This town deserves this." I spat out.
"You're blaming innocent people for something that happened 145 years ago!"
"There is nothing innocent about these people! And don't think for a second that it won't happen again! They already know too much and they'll burn your little grand-witch right next to us when they find out." Stefan and I let go of each other. But I was right and he knew it. "Trust me."
"Things are different now." Emily whispered. Stefan looked at her.
"Don't do this." I pleaded. For her.
"I can't free them. I won't." Emily dropped the stick she had in her hand and yelled a spell into the air. Flames burst all around her.
"No!" I yelled, but I couldn't get to close. I stood outside the perimeter, blinded by the fire. Emily took the necklace out and held it out for me to see. I got even closer to the fire. "No, please." I begged. Someone screamed "Bonnie!" but I was too distracted to care. Emily threw the crystal into the air and it burst into a million pieces. "No!" I yelled as I saw my last chance of saving Katherine disappear.
I looked back at Emily as the fire simmered down and hate boiled over. I didn't even wanna stop myself. Even if she was Bonnie now, I ran as fast as I could and bit the bitch that destroyed any hope of getting Katherine back. I sunk my teeth into her neck and sucked as much blood as I could before Stefan came and pulled me off of her. I stared at her limp body on the ground, satisfied with my work. I had kept my part of the deal; it was Emily who didn't keep hers. Now, she was going to pay.
Stefan cut himself on the wrist and let Bonnie drink his blood to heal her wounds. Of course he would. Elena starred at me with hate and disgust. But all I saw was Katherine. And that's who I would always see.
"Her neck," Elena whispered. "It's healing." I looked at Bonnie who was now breathing and awake. All I wanted to do was sink my teeth back into her and make Emily suffer. But she was under Stefan's protection now.
She was gone. She had always been gone. But now, I'm here. Sitting on a log in the woods, and she can never come back. Stefan approached me. But I didn't care. He could have burned me right there, ripped my heart out. I would have been happy. That's what I wanted him to do. I just wanted it to be over.
"Katherine never compelled me I knew everything." He probably hated me even more. Knowing that I let her hurt him. "Every step of the way." He didn't say anything, he knew I wasn't done. And as much hell as I had put him through, he was my brother. "It was real for me." I whispered. I didn't want his pity so I did the one thing I thought would make him happy. "I'll leave now." I said simply. He nodded and walked back to the one thing in the world that was real to him. He had Elena. I knew he was going to leave too. He wanted to do what was best for her. He had that strength, which was the difference between us. He could get over Katherine and move on, but I couldn't.
There are no other crystals, no other loop holes, she's gone. As much as I resent it, it's the truth. There is nothing left for me anymore. I lost my brother, I lost Katherine, and I was truly alone.
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