When everyone is back everyone wisely chooses not to comment on the tear soaked faces of every single Mikaelson, or when they stand closer together than usual, Klaus doesn't even make room for Damon. Kol explains what happened and all his siblings were tense through the whole story involving their brother, white oak, and two witches.
"We need to find the rest of the wood and burn it"Elijah sighs and everyone nods.
"We kept logging records from 1848 when the town was being built till 1930 when all the mills shut down"Damon tells them gesturing to the large books behind the Mikaelson's.
"Did you know you kept them all that time?"Elena asks Stefan.
"Nope I would have been two at the time the town was being built up. Damon would have been ten, meaning he was being taught how to keep the books. I let him do the business stuff"Stefan shrugs.
"What he means is even though it was an eternity of misery I kept our multiple bank accounts, including his personal ones full of money. Kept our business going, grew them, grew our money. You know made us billionaires and such"Damon says rolling his eyes at Stefan. "Don't say I never did anything for you"he grins.
"Wait all of our accounts?"Stefan asks nervously.
"Yes including leaving the trust fund for Sarah Nelson up, she looks a lot like Uncle Zach doesn't she"Damon smirks and Stefan looks away. "I get it you wanted to protect our great times five half niece. I was a monster, and trust me I've felt horribly guilty about it for years. Even more now"Damon trails off arm wrapping around his middle protectively.
"You totally killed a pregnant woman"Kol laughs and everyone else turns to look at him and Elijah gives Kol his best, I'm not mad just disappointed look, which shuts his brother up.
"It was 1994, my humanity was still off"Damon defends himself.
"How long did you have it off love?"Klaus asks. Damon winces thinking about why he turned it off and bites his lip.
"Lets see 1958 to 2009, fifty four years give or take"Damon shrugs nonchalantly and everyone looks shocked. "I mean Lexi tried fixing me in 1977, backfired. After six months of her following me around and bugging me about Katherine I was already fed up. But when she dug into my mind and brought up Kol I snapped. So I convinced her I was in love with her, which it turns out she'd fallen for me while trying to help me or something like that. So I seduced her, tired her out which took forever, we ended up on the roof. I barricaded the only way back inside, she didn't have daylight jewelry and left her on the roof, for one of the hottest days New York City has ever seen. She left me alone and I got to go on my merry way free of her"Damon grins proud of himself. Klaus tilts his head, that sort of sounded like what Damon did to him at the start of the summer.
"Wouldn't it be funny if he did that to Nik?"Kol smirks picking up on it as well and Klaus glares.
"Well that was my initial plan, seducing him took so much less effort than I thought it would. Falling in love was not apart of the plan. In fact getting you back, Kol, was the other part"Damon confesses. Klaus looks horrified and Damon moves closer pulling him into his arms. "I said I fell in love and I meant it. Stefan talked me out of it the night I saved you from Mikael. Besides you got me pregnant you aren't going anywhere"Damon smirks kissing him and holding him to his chest.
"Okay okay life and death situation here love birds. I'll talk to Carol and see if I can't find anything out about where the wood is"Rebekah sighs leaving the boarding house.
Later that day the Salvatore's find themselves as a ceremony where Alaric showed up out of the blue with the doctor. Damon is shocked to see Sage smirking at him.
"Don't Damon"Stefan warns but his brother is already walking towards the nine hundred year old vampire.
"Who is that?"Meredith asks.
"Sage"Stefan responds grimly. "Finn turned her some time between 1002 and 1114. Making her over nine hundred years old"Stefan tells them. "She's also like Damon's reverse Lexi, after he collapsed in on himself because Kol was gone she snapped him right out of his depressed state"Stefan tells them. They see Damon flat out flirting with the red headed vampire till Rebekah steps in. Stefan rolls his eyes when he hears Damon actually defend Sage. The vampire always had something with Damon.
"Come on Finn I'm sure is waiting for you, true love and all"Damon grins linking arms with Sage. Stefan could handle the rest of this.
"Hmm you smell like a pregnant woman"Sage says when they hit the woods back towards the boarding house.
"That tends to happen when you are pregnant"Damon smirks and her eyebrows shoot up.
"Who's the lucky father?"Sage asks.
"Finn's rageaholic little brother, Klaus"Damon smirks and Sage laughs.
"Of course it is. How did you get roped into that?"she asks.
"Well it started this past summer. A very romantic story of him giving me his blood, the cure for a nasty werewolf bite, and in return I become his slave. After a seduction on my part, arguments blah blah I fell in love. Saved his life against Mikael, had him un-dagger his siblings, you're welcome, and I got hit with a spell. He got me pregnant and we're together"Damon says dramatically his voice dreamy and she rolls her eyes. "You know in the eighties someone saved my ass in Greece, from a lot of vampires. Was that you?"he asks her and she grins.
"Well I heard rumors of my favorite student being targeted for his mass feedings. I couldn't let all my good work go to waste"she grins playfully and he laughs freely head tilted back.
"I've missed you Sage"Damon smiles at her as they near the boarding house.
"I just missed the sex"Sage smirks and Damon laughs louder and she joins in.
"You better not let your true love hear that"Damon grins holding a tree branch up for her and she whistles at the sight of his house.
"I guess Rebekah isn't the only elitist"Sage teases.
"I grew up in this I wasn't going to downsize"Damon retorts dropping the brach so it hits her face.
"Oh pregnant or not it's on"Sage says jumping on him. He falls to the ground and she digs her fingers into his ribs. He erupts into a peal of giggles that no one but his parents and Stefan had ever heard, and that was when he was younger than thirteen. So it wasn't like his brother remembered enough to use it against him.
Klaus heard voices outside and then he heard laughter. Finn, Elijah, and him went to investigate. He saw Damon on the ground and was immediately ready to attack before all three were hit with rippling waves of joy coming off Damon as he giggles and barely struggled under the woman.
"Sage I give, I'm sorry"he manages through his giggles and Finn was looking at them wide eye. "Damn how did you know I was so ticklish"he asks and neither have seemed to notice them.
"Easy you were depressed as hell, Stefan had taken off. Getting into your mind wasn't exactly difficult especially not after the mind blowing sex"Sage grins and that comment makes Finn and Klaus growl. They both look up and glance at each other before bursting out laughing. "Well at least they heard it from us and not your now boring brother. He could've been a lot of fun if you didn't let him go"Sage says.
"Yeah but then I would've had to care about someone besides myself"Damon grins and they walk up towards the back patio.
"Poor baby"Sage says and he sticks his tongue out.
"Hey Klaus ruined me, I care about all these people in Mystic Falls now. My short list of friends has like fifteen people on it, and if you stick around sixteen"Damon grins at her.
"Who is at the top of that list?"Klaus asks pulling Damon closer to him.
"Myself"Damon says and Klaus raises an eyebrow. "Well really the baby, once they're born they'll be at the top. Then you, Stefan, Kol, Rebekah, and then myself"Damon elaborates and Klaus shakes his head. But he knew there baby will be at the top of the list then Damon. Then all his siblings but Rebekah and Elijah first.
"The bridge?"Elijah asks avoiding looking at his big brother making out with the common trash Damon seemed to be associated with.
"Stefan's handling it"Damon shrugs. The three eldest Mikaelson's look at each other before nodding. The wood get burnt and they'd be okay for now. Esther could be put on the back burner till she made her self known again.