While Sage was busy putting Rachel to bed and teaching her some Original history, Damon was meeting with a witch, planning on asking her for a very special thing.
"So, what can I do for you so late in the day Mister Salvatore?" The old witch asked as soon as he entered her shop.
"Janet… I was wondering how much it would cost me to have some sort of jewellery or something to age me…"
"Age you?" She asked.
"I mean something that makes me look older to people who don't know I'm a vampire…"
"Why would you want that?" She asked him curiously.
"Because I have a daughter and I want to be able to introduce myself as her father even when she turns 16…" he explained.
"You care about her… The spirits agree with your request… How weird…" She said thoughtfully.
"I'm willing to pay a lot of money!" Damon insisted.
"How old were you when you were changed?" She asked him.
"I was 24." He replied quickly.
"Okay… I think I can make something that ages you by ranges of 5 years… You'll be able to look 29, 34, 39 or 44… Would that be enough?" She asked him.
"Yes, that would be plenty and great!" He said.
Nodding, she turned around, motioned for him to take a seat and went to grave a couple of books to look through them. After a while she said:
"I could make it a leather braided bracelet with a special stone on it… You'd have some kind of activation words to say to set it on a special age… would that work for you?" she asked.
"Yes, that would be great…" He replied.
"Brown or black leather?" she asked, looking at what she had in her stock.
"I think I'd like black leather much better, thank you!" He replied.
"Wait here while I go in the back to make the stone and put the spell on it… I've got a feeling that the spirits will help since apparently they want to help your daughter…" Janet said as she walked through the back door.
She went into a dark room where she grabbed a sample of several magical stones she had, cut a small piece of them and made a spell so they would all blend together and make one. The onyx, darker than the rest, was inside and would move to indicate the age he was appearing to the others. She barely used her own energy as the spirits helped her and made it so she knew instinctively what she was doing.
When it was done, she grabbed the leather bracelet and did another spell so the stone would stick to it and never fall or anything else. In the end, after she was done with it, it still looked pretty masculine. She walked back into the main room of her shop where Damon was standing, examining some necklaces.
"Those aren't magical… Their just for tourists." She informed it.
"Are they real stones?" he asked, not turning around.
"Some of them are yes, others are just coloured crystals… Why?"
"I was wandering if you could put some sort of locating spell on a necklace I'd give my daughter… You know, like link it to another crystal that I have with me and when I put it on a map it points to the direction I need to go to find her… In case she gets lost or something…" Damon replied.
"That could be done… In the mean time here, this is your bracelet. People who know you're a vampire and that you have the aging bracelet will see you for who you really are…others will see you as your older version. You have to put your index finger on the stone like this and say 'Adhucquinqueanni' as many times as you want to age 5 year range. Every time you take it off, it will reset itself and you'll have to do it again when you put it on. You can get it wet, it holds a protection spell." She explained, showing him how to use it.
He tried it in front of her and looked at his elder self in the mirror before nodding and taking it off.
"Thanks… Can we look at the location necklace now?" he asked.
"Sure, chose the one you want your daughter to wear." She said.
"I think she'll like this one!" He said, showing the witch a simple golden chained necklace with a pink crystal shaped as a star attached to it.
Janet took it in her hands, went to have a look in her stock and got another crystal out. The other crystal was 5 inches long and pointy in one end. She put both crystals in one of Damon's hands as she chanted for several minutes. When she was done chanting, she left them in Damon's hand until she came back with a small black satin pouch and put the locating crystal inside it.
"As soon as you hold this crystal outside of this pouch, it will work on locating your daughter's necklace. If you hold it flat on your hand, the pointy end will show you the right direction to take and if you hold it vertically on a map, it will move your hand on top of the right location." She informed him.
"Thank you. You've been very helpful tonight! How much do I how you?" He asked.
"Well, the stones, the crystals, the leather, the magic, the golden chain…" she said, thinking hard.
Not wanting to waste time, Damon got his wallet out and took two 500 dollar bills.
"Will this cover it?" he asked.
"This is way too much!" she protested.
"Nonsense… Nothing is too much for the safety of my daughter! Take it. Have a good life Janet." Damon said before he left the store, jumped into his car and drove home.
The next day, he would give his daughter he new necklace and tell Sage and her everything about his bracelet and the power the necklace holds.
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