Chapter 4

History Repeating...yay!

1994

Its been 5 weeks and Damon was miserable. Stefan had tricked Damon into pledging to stay and raise the child. He didn't like it one bit, but it's not like he had anything better else to do. The baby was only 7 weeks old now. She barely had any hair and was pretty much bald, but you could see tiny specks. It seemed brown. Her eyes were brownish blue. Even though Damon disliked the kid, Stefan was having a ball with her. He made her smile, make a weird noise from her mouth that they assumed to be a laugh and made her happy. But with Damon, EVERYTHING he did was wrong. He tried, he really did. But it just wouldn't be enough. She'd cry, scream and holler all the time. Once she even broke up into tears the minute Stefan handed her over to Damon so he could hold her, while he had to do some earns.

Damon didn't like the child, and the child didn't like Damon. He soon decided enough was enough. He was going to make this kid pay for it. And he knew exactly how.

When nobody, as in Stefan, was around, Damon grabbed the infant from her crib that Stefan had bought her. She automatically started to cry. "Shut up! I'm tired of your little crying and your whining and your yapping! You will do what I say when ever I say! You will obey and shut up! Got it?! Now quiet!" Damon nearly yelled. The baby cried softly, but soon stopped crying.

She had been compelled. Damon smirked slightly, pleased by his work. "Also...you will not disobey no matter how hard you want to. Even if you had the ability to not be compelled by me anymore, you will STILL do as I say, because it feels right to you. And also, just for the sake of humor, when you or if you make it to the age of 16. I want you do something for me, but I'll tell you to do it later. It'll be fun seeing Stefan try to stop you from doing so. And you won't stop til you have fulfil your duty. I don't care how you do it, just do it. It'll be...amusing." Damon told her with a smirk,

"You promise to keep your promise?" The child couldn't reply, but something flashed in her eyes that made it seemed like she understood what to do. Damon was pretty much laughing hysterically on the inside of the thought of Stefan panicking in the future to forever stop her from causing havoc once she's old enough.

2009

Christina gasped up in shock. She was in her bedroom. Was it a dream? Or was it true? Was she going to do something more horrible than trying to kill Jeremy? Or was it just foreshadowing? She didn't know all she knew was that she needed her sleep. Her hand had been fixed up, due to her dad giving her his blood later that night, before she went off to sleep. She knew it was sorta morning, but she still needed 5 more minutes of sleep. She soon slightly dozed off, not aware that Damon had been able to get into her head and make her remember her promise.

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Eventually after getting an unpleasant wake up call from her alarm clock that would pretty much wake up the entire town, Christina had went to the kitchen and opened up her fridge. She pulled out some orange juice with pulp in it. Her favorite. She soon poured it in a cup and gulped it down. She soon stopped.

Something was strange about the drink. It didn't taste like it usually did. She eventually shrugged it off and placed it all back in the fridge, thinking it went bad or something.

However, she didn't know she had get ingested vervain.

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Hours had passed as this continued straight nonstop.

"Can I come please!?" She pleaded her dad. "No." He told her.

"Please!"

"No."

"Please!"

"No."

"Please."

"No."

"Please."

"No."

"...Please?"

"NO!"

At this point, if Christina was the 'third' person of the point of view, she'd laugh right now at how childish her father was acting. "Why can't I come!?" She whined slightly. She heard there was going to be a Founders ball and she so badly wanted to go. She even had a dress and everything!

"I don't want to draw too much attention." He told her, without even glancing at her.

"Yeah, but it'll be fine. We already have a cover story. I'm your little sister. Christina A. Salvatore." She informed him. Stefan sighed slightly. He really didn't want her to go, but he knew she wouldn't stop bugging him with this. And besides perhaps it would be safe for her to go, since she had breakfast that morning and had ingested vervain. Damon couldn't touch her now. At least mentally, he still needed to guard her.

"If I say yes, well you promise to behave and be by my side no matter what?" He asked her. Was that a trick question?! Christina wondered. "When have I ever misbehaved?" She pointed out. She quickly gave her dad a small peck on the cheek before skipping off to her room to get her dress. Stefan rolled his eyes at her childish way of existing the room. He soon sighed.

Teenagers these days. You honestly just don't know what to do with them.

Christina had went to ball, escorted by her dad. She was wearing a white and pink designed dress that stopped to over her knees. She had a small evening purse and her hair was tied up to a ponytail. She had added some lip gloss to her lips and golden custom jewelry. As she and Stefan had entered, he soon caught eyes with Elena. She looked absolutely stunning.

"I'll be right back...I won't be long." He informed his daughter, who wasn't really paying attention to what he was saying, since she was busy looking at the chatty crowd. Stefan soon left Christina and walked up to Elena. Luckily, he was still in earshot to know if Christina was okay or not. "Hey." He said to her. "Hey." She said to him, happy to see him. He leaned in and gave her a soft and sweet kiss on the cheek. Elena blushed slightly.

They were not aware that Damon was watching them from afar.

Christina had eventually joined the crowd and chatted briefly with the elder people. They were interested in knowing what her relation to the Salvatore's were. And she always told them the same. She was the youngest sister and the baby in the family. And they bought it.

While this occurred, Stefan and Elena were near a case that held Elena's parents wedding rings. "Your parents?" Stefan asked her. "There's a lot of history here." She told him. She was still upset over her parent's death, but she was feeling better. In fact to be honest, she was actually getting back to her old self, slowly but surely.

As Christina left a crowd, she started walking towards where all the historical cases were. She then stopped dead end on her tracks when she saw someone.

It was Katherine.

Christina was shocked. How is she still alive?! I thought she was dead!? She yelled to herself. She then saw her dad wrap an arm around her affectionately. At that point Christina lost it.

"What the hell?!" She bursted out suddenly, gaining Elena and Stefan's attention. Elena turned to the girl in confusion. She looked shock and possibly horrified. She looked familiar too. It soon hit Elena that she was the random girl from the football game that Stefan had comforted. Stefan started to panic, knowing why she said that. He forgot to tell her Elena looked a lot like Katherine. She probably thought she was Katherine. Stefan quickly left Elena's side and dragged a stunned Christina away from the scene. He dragged her all the way to a room where there were no people or witnesses in earshot.

"What the hell!?" Christina repeated again in shock. "Christina it's not what you think." Stefan started out. "Oh so Katherine's NOT alive and you're NOT falling for her again?!" She said sarcastically. She was just stunned. She never excepted this to happen, especially after what her dad had told her about Katherine and what she did to him. "Look, she's NOT Katherine. Her name's Elena and..." Stefan started out but was cut off by, "ELENA?! That's Elena?! What the hell, dad! Are you emotionally damaged or something?! She can practically be her twin!" Christina exclaimed in shock, scolded her dad and interrupted him at once.

"Listen, she's not Katherine. Yes she does look like her, but she's different. She's kinder, selfless, and caring. She's really nice. Yes, she does look a lot like Katherine and that's what drew me in at first, but it's what's inside that counts. She's absolutely NOTHING like Katherine." Stefan quickly explained to her, before she had a chance to interrupt him again. Christina was still steamed, but she soon calmed down. "Okay, but next time you have a girlfriend who looks exactly like your ex vampire girlfriend who's dead, you should inform me first, before shacking up with her." Christina told him. "Don't worry. There won't be a next time. And I'm not shacking her. Yet." He quickly told her. Christina grinned slightly and followed him back to where they left Elena.

"Hey I was worried...is everything alright?" Elena asked concerned.

'Caring? Check!' Christina told herself. "We're fine. Sorry about my outburst earlier, you reminded me of someone I'm not really fond off, but I won't hold it against you. I'm Christina Salvatore. Stefan's little sister." Christina told her politely, while shaking her hand. Stefan couldn't help but smile slightly at how polite his daughter was being and for apologizing for her actions. Elena was stunned slightly.

"Wow. Stefan never told me he had a sister." She informed her. "I guess he never got around to it. You know guys. Very forgetful." Christina teased slightly. Elena chuckled slightly. "You seem really sweet, are you sure we've never met before?" Elena asked her. "No, I don't think so. Maybe you've seen me around school." Christina informed her. "Uh..okay then...it was really great to meet you." Elena told her sweetly.

'Kinder? Selfless? Check! Check!' Christina smiled slightly at her dad's girlfriend. She was happy he had ended up with a nice girl like Elena, instead of some other raging bitch like Katherine.

After a short while Elena and Christina had connected. They were really fond of each other. Yet Elena couldn't shake off the strange feeling that she had seen her somewhere before. Same went for Christina who was still curious as to why she looked like Katherine.

"'The Founding Families in Mystic Falls welcomes you to the inaugural founder's council celebration' Wow, look, it's the original guest registry. Look at all these familiar names- Sheriff William Forbes, Mayor Benjamin Lockwood. Is that Damon Salvatore? And, Stefan Salvatore?" Elena read the first registry from the 1800's. Stefan and Christina started to panic, yet they hid it well.

"The original Salvatore brothers. Our ancestors. Tragic story, actually." Damon soon appeared. Panic soon washed over Christina's face and she had no time to hide it. "We don't need to bore them with stories of the past." Stefan soon added. "It's not boring, Stefan. I'd love to hear more about your family."

'Nice? Check!' Christina groaned slightly at that thought.

"Well, I'm bored. I want to dance. And Damon won't dance with me." Caroline suddenly said. Christina didn't know much about the blonde expect that she was head cheerleader of their school and was Damon's little sex slave. She didn't know why but she felt bad for the blonde and a part of her saw her like a high school version of Lexi. God did Christina miss Lexi!

"Could I just borrow your date?" Caroline asked Elena. "I don't really dance." Stefan soon injected. Christina rolled her eyes at his false excuse. Her dad was an excellent dancer, slow, but good. "Oh, sure he does. You should see him. The waltz, the jitterbug, the moonwalk. He does it all." Damon teased. If it wasn't for the fact she disliked him, Christina would have laughed. "You wouldn't mind, would you, Elena?" Caroline asked her. "It's up to Stefan." Elena told her.

"Well sorry, but I'm not going to take no for an answer." Caroline stated, before practically dragging him towards the dance floor. Christina beamed up in a smile. That's exactly something Lexi would do! "I want to apologize to you for being such a world- class jerk to you the other night when I tried to kiss you..." Damon started. 'Woah when was that?!' Christina wondered in shock.

"There's no excuse. My therapist says. I'm...Acting out, trying to punish Stefan." Damon finished. "For what?" Elena asked curiously. 'Remember it killed the cat!' Christina so badly wanted to tell Elena, but told herself instead.

"It's all in the past. I don't even want to bring it up. Let's just say the men in the Salvatore family have been cursed with sibling rivalry. And it all started with the original Salvatore brothers. Luckily, since Chrissy here is a girl, she'll never have to go through that." Damon informed Elena. Christina couldn't help but roll her eyes. They soon started to walk off slightly in a group.

"The Salvatore name was practically royalty in this town. Until the war. There was a battle here..." Damon started out. "The battle of willow creek." Elena and Christina had both interrupted him. "Right." Damon stated. He didn't know why but he felt his head grow big when Christina answered what the name of the battle was. Was it pride? He wasn't sure.

"I know, we talked about it in class. The Confederate soldiers fired under a church." Elena told him. "What the history books left out was the people that were killed. They weren't there by accident. They were believed to be 'union' sympathizers. So some of the founders of the confederacy side back then wanted them rounded up and burned alive. Stefan and Damon had someone they loved very much in that church. And when they went to rescue them, they were shot. Murdered in cold blood." Damon told them. "Who was in the church they wanted to save?" Elena asked him.

"A woman, ('Named Katherine!' Christina practically yelled in her head) I guess. Doesn't it always go down to the love of a woman? Either way, after the brothers were dead, there was no one else to continue their legacy and generation instead of Stefan's love child. Which explains how we're all still around and alive in warm blood." Damon added. Christina knew he was talking about her, yet she didn't say anything to it. Only hoping Elena bought the whole story.

"Look, I'm sorry that you and Stefan have this thing between you, but I can't get in the middle of it, Damon. I just... I hope you two can work it out." Elena informed him. "I hope so too." Damon told her. Christina wasn't sure if he meant it or if it was just for show. But oddly enough when he said that he was looking at Christina as the words came out. From the way he looked at her, Christina could have sworn it was at least 99 percent true, but she could be wrong.

"What'd we miss?" Damon asked Stefan, as they all approached him.

"We were just chatting. Drink, Damon?" Stefan asked him. He had placed some vervain just in case. "No, thanks, I'll pass." Damon told him. He knew it was laced, he was just slightly surprised that he would do it again like this morning, oh well...as if his brother ever learns? "Stefan do you have another dance in you?" Elena asked him. Stefan wanted to dance with Elena, yet he wasn't sure if he could leave Christina alone to defend herself against Damon. "Absolutely." He told Elena. He figured as long as they were in earshot Damon wouldn't pull anything.

Christina soon watched as her father dragged his girlfriend towards the dance floor. "They look so cute together." Caroline commented. Christina couldn't argue with that. They did look cute together. "Don't talk, please." Damon informed Caroline, unpleased. He didn't want his brother to be happy. He wanted to punish him. He wanted him to suffer. He wanted to keep his promise that he made to him 145 years ago. He didn't care if he had to turn Elena against him, or kill his daughter, as long as the promise was kept everything would go peachy. But this was all in anger. He knew deep down he didn't despise his brother that much. They had their fights and would be very distant, but in the end they wouldn't wish the other to die permanently... but until they could fix their relationship... this had to happen.

He quickly grabbed a tight grip of Christina's hand and leaded her away from the dance floor. It looked like a firm grip, even though it wasn't. Christina so badly wanted to scream or to call for help, but she saw the look her dad gave Elena and decided against it. She wanted her dad to be happy and to go at least one day without having to worry about her. Her dad use to go on some dates while she was a kid, but it never worked well. He was always worried about her and concerned about her. She was pretty much the main reason why he stayed single for most of the 90's and early 2000's. After all these years, her dad deserved it. He deserved to go a day without having to think much about her. He deserved to go on a date with the love of his life. Hell, He even deserved a vacation and an award for being a single vampire parent to an everyday human child!

After a while, Damon lead her to a different room away from earshot of anyone (mainly Stefan's). "What are you doing!? Let go of me! Damon. Damon!" Christina demanded. "You, my little munchkin, are going to help me with a little something. You see that little crystal right there, I want you to get it for me. Now." Damon commanded her. "You can't control me. My dad told me on the way over here that he placed me on vervain. Your compulsion won't work on me anymore." Christina told him cockily with a smirk in the end. Damon smirked back at her.

"Who says I needed compulsion? You are going to do it, because it's what you think is right." Damon told her. Christina was confused. After a brief moment, she lost control again. Her mind went blank and her common sense went out the drain. She didn't understand what was happening to her, yet she couldn't stop herself. She stole a crystal from the collection and gave it to Damon. He smirked in glee that his compulsion hadn't worn off yet after all these years.

"Thank you, Chrissy, now begone little soldier." Damon told her teasly, before walking off. Christina's mind was still blank and she didn't quite remember the last few minutes of her life at the moment. She shook her head and headed for the restroom stalls.

"Great. Just great." Christina heard Elena say in the restroom. "Really? Well, my radar must be off 'cause I was getting all sorts of other vibes..." The blonde replied to her. "What is that?" Elena asked Caroline as she noticed something on her neck. Yet she didn't notice Christina eavesdropping on their conversation. "Hmm?" Caroline asked Elena. As she was about to take the scarf she was wearing off, Caroline immediately told her, "Don't!" Rejecting what she said, Elena lifted up the scarf and saw a bad bite mark on her neck. Both Elena and Christina were shocked by this. Christina knew Damon was abusing her, but she didn't know it was this bad.

"Oh, god, Caroline what happened?" Elena asked, both concerned and worried for her friend. "Nothing ok?!" Caroline lied. Christina could tell and she didn't even know the blonde! "This is not nothing! Did someone hurt you?" Elena asked Caroline, getting really angry and worried for her friend. Elena soon pulls down Caroline's shawl to reveal more bite marks. Christina instantly turned pale after seeing it. "Damon." She muttered to herself. Elena could hear her, and turned her head in shock. She soon turned to face Caroline.

"Did Damon do this? Did he hurt you?" Elena asked her. "No! Of course not! Just leave it alone Elena." Caroline tried to avoid the problem. Christina was getting worse. Suddenly she soon remembered what had happened a few moments ago with Damon. He made her do something she didn't want to do without compulsion and she was ON vervain. This obviously freaked her out. Elena noticing this walked up to Christina.

"Christina. Christina are you okay?! You don't look so well." She asked her, slightly alarmed. Even though she didn't know her that much she had grown very attached to the brown-haired brown-eyed girl. Christina not knowing what to do started to panic. She soon raced out of the restroom as if it were on fire. Elena ran after her, but stopped when she saw Damon. She soon walked up to him.

"There is something seriously wrong with you. You stay away from Caroline or I will go straight to her mother, the sheriff. You got it? Stay away from her." She warned him before going off to find Christina, only to find Stefan instead.

"I'm sorry I take it all back. You were right about Damon." Elena told him. "What did he do?" Stefan asked her, hoping Damon didn't do anything that might risk exposure to them. "There are bruises all over Caroline's body. Bite marks and he's got her all confused and messed up in the head. In fact, Christina looked horrified and ran off after seeing the marks. She's practically scarred or something. And you don't seem surprised." Elena told him. She noticed he wasn't surprise during the whole conversation, but he did seem angry when she brought up Christina. "Um... I'm handling it." Stefan told her. He was trying so hard to not vamp up and attack Damon for practically scarring his daughter for pretty much life.

"Handling it? Stefan you should be having him arrested!" Elena told him. "Elena, please. I...I don't expect you to understand." He told her. He knew she wouldn't understand even if he did tell her the truth, he was just hoping she would back off for just a moment. That's all he asked. "I don't understand anything, Stefan. So why don't you clear it up for me." Elena informed Stefan. She just didn't understand why he was keeping things from her, especially certain things like this. Stefan sighed slightly. He was frustrated now and was torn between telling her the truth or not. "Look, there are things you don't know, ok? Things I want to tell you. And I may not be able to. And I just need you to trust me." Stefan told her. "Trust is earned. I can't magically hand it over." Elena informed him.

Stefan soon noticed Damon dragging both Caroline and Christina with him. His blood started to boil knowing what Damon was going to do to them. "I'm so sorry. I have to go." Stefan told her, before quickly walking off, leaving a hurt Elena behind.

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Christina was so confused unaware of what was happening to her. Soon Damon grabbed a hold of her and told her not to call for help. She obeyed and they, plus Caroline, went out to the lawn. "What's going on? I don't understand! Please let me go." She told Damon through her teary eyes. "I swear I didn't say anything. She saw the marks and I panicked okay? I'm so sorry. I tried to tell her off!" Caroline told him. Damon stared at both of the girls. "You stop complaining, and I forgive you." He told them both. "I swear I didn't say.." Caroline started out. Damon sshed her. "It's okay I forgive you." He told her sweetly. "Damon what's going on!? I'm so confused!" Christina bursted out.

Damon looked at her and told her, "Say that one more time and you'll black out Missy." Christina was so confused. She didn't understand what was going on with her tonight. Whatever it was... she hated it. She hated not remembering certain things. She hated having her mind blank. But what she hated the most...she hated not being in control of herself.

"Unfortunately for you, babe... I'm SO over you." He told Caroline before biting into her neck. Christina so badly wanted to scream and call for help so someone could save poor Caroline, but she couldn't. She wanted to, but she couldn't. Damon had told her not to. And she couldn't. Easy as that. Suddenly, Damon started to choke and they both fell to the ground. "What the hell?" He erupted suddenly. Stefan soon walked up to them. "You know, I couldn't spike your drink... so I spiked hers." Stefan told him, referring to secretly placing vervain in Caroline's drink just like Stefan did to Christina that morning. Christina looked back and forth between them. "I'm still confused." She mumbled to herself.

Just like that she realized her mistake. Her legs soon weakened and she collapsed to the ground, earning a shocked looking Stefan, who could have fainted in horror, if he weren't a vampire.

Christina soon fluttered her eyes open. She was in her room in her bed, still wearing her party dress.

"You're awake. Thank god." She heard her father whisper to her on her right. He was sitting on a stool next to her laying body. "D..d...dad?" Christina stumbled a bit. "Yes?" He asked concerned and worried for her. "What happened?" She asked him. He shook his head slightly. "I don't know. You passed out. What's the last thing you remember?" Stefan asked her.

He was very freaked out earlier after what happened to his daughter. He was afraid she was going to die somehow. He was able to hear her heart beat, but it was faint. He was, however, very much relieved to know she was okay once she woke up. Christina thought it over, but her mind was still blank.

"All I remember is you dancing with Elena and seeing Caroline's bite marks. The rest is just a big blur." She told him. Stefan looked at her cautiously and saw she was telling the truth. She really didn't remember much of tonight, which he guessed was okay, since that night wasn't exactly memorable.

"You go get some rest and I'll check on you later, okay?" He told her. She nodded. He soon got up about to leave her room. "Dad." She told him. He turned to look at her. "What happened to Damon?" She asked slightly concerned about her 'uncle'. She may not have much memory of the night, but she knew for a fact something had happened to him. "I'll tell you in the morning. Just know he's long gone and he'll never hurt you or anyone else again." He told her. Christina was unsure about it, but she agreed anyway. Knowing he'll explain the whole night to her at breakfast.