TVD The Blood Games
Disclaimer: The vampire diaries does not belong to me. Only the OC, Dorothy I created belongs to me.
Chapter 6: Damon's Decision
May 13, 1994
"You know Damon. I know it was you left those bodies in the living room." Gail mentions as she gets packed for her camping trip into the woods were she'd undergo vampire boot camp with Lexi and Stefan. She had asked Damon to speak with her and he'd agreed.
"I'd wondered when someone was going to say something." Damon murmured.
"Zach hates confrontations. As far as he's concerned you know better now and everything turned out well in the end. He's also convinced since Dorothy likes you that there's something redeemable about you. But I'm not so forgiving or convinced." Gail explains with steel in her voice.
Damon braced himself when he heard her tone.
She continues explaining, "When Zach briefed me on the history of his family. He mentioned how you and Stefan didn't get along and how casualties are left behind in the wake of your fights. But things were calm and Dorothy pulled you in with her unique charm. I thought maybe the fighting was finally over and that you were trying to be a better."
Gail frowns severely, "I was wrong obviously. You fed from me and my husband. Which Zach still doesn't remember. I gave you the benefit of the doubt no matter your past and you disappointed me. I assume based on your track record the bodies were left because Stefan upset you in some way?" she asked with an eyebrow raised.
Damon just nodded seeing that she had more to say.
"See Damon you were lucky that I became a vampire and that I didn't actually permanently die and that Sarah survived as well. Because if Sarah and me had died you would have robbed Dorothy of a mother and sister. You adore Dorothy and I know you wouldn't have wanted to do that to her. You need to understand that she is a very young impressionable human girl. She's shouldn't grow up to be as selfish and destructive as you." Gail passionately states.
Damon was not expecting this conversation to go this way. He has no idea what to say but felt like he should be offended.
Gail doesn't expect a response, she said her piece and if Zach is right and Damon has a decent bone in his body. He will remove himself from Dorothy's life so she won't grow up around Damon's twisted morals. It's all she could really do. Damon was older then her and Stefan had decided that being around Dorothy was good for Damon and removing her would be a bad idea so he was no help. Gail wasn't physically strong enough to force him but she could maybe could appeal to his humanity.
May 16, 1994
"Hello, Damon." Enzo grins at Damon from his spot on the front porch of the boarding house a few days after Gail had told Damon off.
"Enzo." He responds flatly, "You found out where I live I see."
"It is called the Salvatore Boarding House." Enzo couldn't help pointing out, "You wouldn't mind getting the owner to let your old friend in, what you?" he grinned charmingly.
"I thought we had an unspoken agreement that we'd go our separate ways." Damon complained.
"Well my plan had been to go on a killing spree for all those who tortured me. When I learned that you beat me to the punch. Good on you, Damon. You killed them all like you said you would all those years ago." Enzo marveled.
"You know me I always keep a promise when it comes to murder." Damon grinned sarcastically.
"This discovery has made me reevaluate my stance on forgiving you. Although Aaron Whitmore III is still alive want to help kill him with me?" Enzo invites.
"Kind of busy, you know with baby vamp Gail." Damon mused aloud.
"Doesn't Broody got that?" Enzo retorts, raising an eyebrow.
"His name is Stefan." Damon corrects but he is slightly amused by Enzo nickname.
"Stefan, your brother? The one who left you to rot?" That Stefan?" Enzo questioned.
"Yes that Stefan who I'm actually getting along with these days. So get lost Enzo." Damon dismissed.
"Oh I see how it is you have Stefan so you don't need old Enzo, huh?" Enzo snarled, "I don't think so!"
"Enzo take your crazy elsewhere." Damon sighs as he slams the door in his face.
Dorothy startles when she sees a strange man knocking on her bedroom window. 'Open it' he mouths at her. She just squints at him. "Uncle Damon!" she yells.
"What Dorothy?" he asks as he flashes into her room and then spots Enzo.
"There's a strange man outside my window." Dorothy informs him.
"Seriously Enzo. Creeping on little girls now? You've sunken that low?" Damon mutters exasperated.
"Damon, let me in." Enzo insists.
"Don't make me call a witch on you." Damon warns.
"Will it be the gorgeous one?" Enzo asks cheekily.
"No it will be one that will not hesitant to melt your brain out of your ears." Damon sasses.
"Kinky." Enzo smirks.
"He reminds me of you, Uncle Damon." Dorothy smiles.
"No." Damon says simply as he pushes Dorothy out of her own room.
"Who was that?" Dorothy asked as she let Damon carry her away from her room.
"Enzo." Damon scowled.
"Enzo your friend, I thought he died?" Dorothy questioned in a confused tone.
"So did I." Damon muttered.
"Isn't this a good thing? Why are you sad?" Dorothy badgered worriedly.
"I'm not sad!" Damon protested.
"Are too! You're doing that thing were your pretend to be mad when you're really sad!" Dorothy insisted.
"You know, you are a very creepy child." Damon informs disturbed at how accurately she can read him.
Dorothy stuck out her tongue at him, "No I'm just smarter than you!"
May 23, 1994
"Damon, can you please try harder to get rid of Enzo. His presence is making me uncomfortable." Zach complained to his great-great-great granduncle a week after Enzo first reappearance.
He just come back from getting his photos developed. Ever since Stefan, Lexi, and Gail had all left to go on a vampire training session two weeks ago, Zach had been obsessively taking pictures of everything so Gail wouldn't feel like she missed anything in the girls lives. They were mostly pictures of Sarah sleeping or eating in her incubator. But Dorothy's pictures were more varied and Gail would definitely get a kick out of them.
"I think he wants to be Uncle Damon friend again." Dorothy chimed from her spot on the couch were she was coloring a picture of a forest.
"No he's stalking me. If anyone ever does that to you. You tell me and I'll eat them." Damon corrected as he handed her a green crayon for one of the trees.
"Why don't you want to be around him?" Zach questions not understanding why Damon was avoiding someone he used to consider a friend.
"Enzo is off his rocker now. I don't do crazy." Damon stated bluntly.
"That hurts me, Damon." Enzo voice was heard saying from the outside.
"Go away, you nutcase!" Damon yelled out to him.
Zach sighed, 'Vampires and their dramas.' he thought, rolling his eyes.
"Damon I genuinely don't understand why you are turning down killing someone with me." Enzo says with a puzzled look on his face the next day as he sits outside the Salvatore's front door.
"I'm trying to be a better person nowadays, that means no murder unfortunately." Damon explained from behind the closed door as he leaned against it.
"The Damon Salvatore I remember wouldn't even hesitate in getting revenge with me. Have you really gotten so soft?" Enzo grimaced.
"You know you're welcome to go kill him all by yourself." Damon mentioned.
"That's not as fun." Enzo complained.
"Don't you have anyone else to bother?" Damon questioned irritated.
"Not really, remember my lady love? I finally found out what happened to her. She died in 1960. I'm all alone." Enzo mourned.
"Sucks for you." Damon snarked.
"You know she was murdered rather gruesomely. Her head was ripped off. I think a vampire killed her." Enzo chatted conversationally.
"Sounds like someone I know." Damon said under his breath.
"So it was Stefan!" Enzo raged.
"I never said that." Damon said quickly.
"I knew it! I'll kill him." Enzo ranted as he flashed away.
"Shit." Damon muttered to himself. He goes to follow when he notices a journal that Enzo must of left behind on the porch. Damon opened it and saw a picture of a beautiful woman who must of been Enzo's Maggie. She looked familiar...
"Fuck me." Damon cussed.
Damon rushed after him, he came across Enzo tackling Stefan into the woods interrupting one of Gail's lessons. The lessons that we're deep in Mystic Falls forests because Gail didn't want to be too far away from her family.
"You killed Maggie, you bastard!" Enzo was yelling.
"What the hell are you talking about?!" Stefan shouted back.
"My ex-girlfriend Maggie, you killed her in 1960!" Enzo stated aggressively.
"Stefan wasn't a ripper in the 60s." Lexi butted in as she stepped between them.
"Who else rips off their victims heads?! It's his calling card!" Enzo argued.
"Enzo stop! I killed Maggie, okay?" Damon admitted as he ran over to Enzo.
"What?" Enzo asked blankly.
"You left behind her journal on the porch." Damon explains as he holds up a picture of Maggie.
"This is her, right? I killed her." Damon repeats, "didn't even bat an eye. She had the Augustine crest. I was going out of my way to kill them. I had no idea she was your Maggie. Just do whatever it is you got to do. You want to kill me, you want to hate me, do it. This is between us. Leave Stefan alone."
"Well, that's the problem, Damon. I don't want to hate you. Because if I hate you, then I have nothing left. but there is another option." Enzo murmurs.
"Hell no." Lexi denies as she quickly snaps Enzo neck before he can flip his switch.
"He'll still do it when he wakes up." Damon deadpans.
"I'm taking him to the detox room. I think it's time I had a chat with Enzo." Lexi decides.
"Uh what the hell?" Enzo groans as he wakes up restrained to a chair.
"Hello Enzo, I don't believe we've been properly introduced. I'm Lexi." Lexi introduces herself.
"Why am I tied to a chair? I'm all for bondage but you really should ask first." Enzo snarks.
"You and Damon have the same sense of humor." Lexi mused.
"Except I'm much more charming than him, right gorgeous?" Enzo smirks with a wink.
Lexi looks slightly amused before she responds seriously "Look Enzo, you've been through hell there is no denying that. I understand that you feel that turning off your emotions is your best option in the light of Damon's past actions but don't do it."
"And why do you care?" Enzo asked.
"I don't like to see people suffer, Enzo. I always try to help people if I can." Lexi explains.
"Why though?" Enzo puzzles not understanding how someone could care for someone she doesn't even know.
"Because there was a time when I needed someone to do that for me." Lexi answered somberly.
"Oh do tell." Enzo encouraged as he raised his eyebrows suggestively.
"I'm not going to tell you my life story just yet Enzo. First you have to be my friend first." Lexi smiled.
"Oh?" he smirked.
"Congratulations you're my newest venture." Lexi smirked back.
Damon was not having a good month.
First, he finds out that he has to wait another fifteen years to free Katherine from the goddamn tomb.
Second, he nearly got Dorothy's mother and sister killed which would have made Dorothy hate him. Luckily, the doctor's saved Sarah but Gail did end up as a vampire.
Third, he discovers that Enzo his friend he thought he abandoned to die was alive and now slightly unhinged. Enzo who was encouraging his more darker urges.
Fourth, Gail tells him that he's going ruin Dorothy's life. Stefan and Lexi kept saying the same thing.
Damon did not want to ruin Dorothy's childhood. He wanted her to have all the things a little girl should. He knew that maybe he wasn't the best influence on her as she was picking up his sass but that's the least offensive thing she could have copied from him. He didn't want her to think that killing was okay and become some sort of psychopath! Dorothy was too young to fully understand anyway. Everyone was blowing this out of proportion. She'd forget all this, as no one remember things they did as a two year old. But... she did have disturbing good memory and was way too observant for a kid her age. The kid was messed up all on her own which was one of the reasons why Damon was so fond of her.
He was much too selfish to just leave her life completely but maybe he could leave her life for a bit and then come back when she's older and less impressionable. Maybe then everyone would get off is back about corrupting her. He was sick of everyone judging his every action.
May 26, 1994
"Damon." Enzo greeted coolly as Damon marched over to him a few days after it was revealed that Damon killed Maggie.
"Emotions still on, I see you fell for Lexi's particular charm." Damon sneered, rolling his eyes.
"She is an amazing woman." Enzo pointed out with a smirk.
"Do you really want to be her next pet project?" Damon condescended.
"I'm not a "pet project". She's going to help me-" Enzo started arguing offended but Damon cut him off.
"Please don't be naive Enzo. You're better than that. Lexi likes to collect people she finds as broken and "fix" them. My brother is already lost in her web. Don't you go falling too." Damon snarked.
"You can't dislike her too terribly. She's still alive after all." Enzo pointed out.
"Lexi in her own way helped Stefan find some control in his life. No matter how weak that control is. I'm grateful for that." Damon admitted begrudgingly but continued saying, "but she has made my brother afraid to embrace to his naturally instincts. Which I believe was unintentional but Stefan shouldn't fear himself. He should learn to embrace what he has become and he'll be much happier. But Stefan is a stubborn idiot and refuses."
"Why are you telling me this? What are you up to Damon?" Enzo puzzled.
"I don't want you to end up like Stefan." Damon states.
"I won't. I'm not a ripper." Enzo denies easily.
"You're not a saint though. Don't try to be one." Damon commands.
"Listen to your own advise! You like a whipped dog when it comes to that little girl!" Enzo shouted indignantly.
"You are right," Damon acknowledged, "Which is why I propose we both leave and go kill the remaining Augustine together." Damon smirked.
Enzo raised an eyebrow at him, "I thought you were trying to be a better person?" Enzo mocked.
"I've had a change of heart." Damon grins darkly.