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Chapter 25: The Broken make the best followers

"I scream for everything that has gone wrong. I scream for everything broken in our lives."

It began with his mother.

Damon Salvatore was 10 years old when the fever took his mother.

He remembered looking down at her in her feverish state the sweat beads heavy on her brow while she shivered with every breath she took. He remembered counting each bead of sweat as it made its way down her frail cheek. He had grown weary as a young man would and soon began counting her struggling breath. He counted and counted until she was no more. Damon Salvatore was 10 years old when it had begun. It had begun with his mother.

She had dealt the first blow.

Damon Salvatore was 21 years old when he first fell in love with Katherine Pierce. She had been picking wild flowers in the orchard and had turned her head to the side to avoid the piercing rays of the sun. It was in that moment Damon Salvatore swore to love none other. Damon Salvatore was 21 years old when the blow his mother had dealt reared its ugly head.

She had struck him down.

Damon Salvatore was given the chance to live again. Katherine Pierce had given him a second chance at life. He had a chance to do things again. He had the chance to be a God.

She had made him a God.

Numbing the pain he took life after life feeding the emptiness through the screams of his victims and through rage for his brother. He had blamed his brother for years for the choice he believed was taken from him. But in reality he reviled in the life he was given.

It was his second chance.

But mystic falls had struck him down with the same coy smile that haunted his dreams for a thousand nights. Elena Gilbert had stolen his heart like a thief in the night.

It should have ended with Elena Gilbert.

But it didn't.

"Something isn't right"

Damon looked up at the blond vampire chewing anxiously at her nails, her eyes darting from left to right. Damon sighed, nothing was ever right in mystic falls.

Caroline Forbes had marched her way into the Salvatore Manor that morning waking the elder Salvatore brother from his wake. It had taken Damon 30 minutes of listening to Caroline's ramblings for Damon to decipher that the young blond was worried.

And she had good reason to be so.

Especially when Klaus Mikaelson was involved.

"Maybe he's gone on vacation and given up?" he suggested half-heartedly refilling his bourbon for the third time that morning. He chuckled internally at the thought.

Klaus Michaelson never gave up. Not when he was on the verge of getting everything he ever wanted.

And Klaus Mikaelson wanted it all.

But Damon found himself agreeing with the young blond nonetheless. Something wasn't right.

It had been weeks since the original had graced mystic falls with his presence. It had been even longer since he had lounged around mystic grill making empty threats.

Caroline reached for the empty glass in the tray with trembling hands she poured herself a cup of bourbon taking a seat next to Damon she stared down at the ground lost in her thoughts. Damon watched her wearily. She had reason to worry.

"Klaus doesn't just give up Damon. He has to be up to something. He must be planning something. We have to be careful"

Damon growled angrily in response "Maybe you should be giving that advice to your good ol' bestie. Stefan told me he found her strolling through the cemetery last night."

Caroline turned to give Damon the full extent of her icy glare.

"I can't lock her up Damon" she responded angrily through clenched teeth

Damon knew that.
Didn't mean he liked it.

"Well here we are working day and night trying to save her life and there she is casually taking risks trying to blow everything we have been working on!"

Caroline frowned her eyes narrowing in suspicion.

"What's going on with you lately? You look more agitated than usual" she asked curiously.

Damon growled under his breath.

Damon Salvatore was 10 years old when it had begun with his mother.

And It should have ended with Elena Gilbert.

But it didn't.