Damon smiles when they get out of the cab and pays the driver. "Come on"he says speeding in. Klaus speeds after him and Stefan picks Bonnie up and they all speed into the castle. Damon eagerly gives them a tour and talks about all the things he did. When they get to the west wing where he lived he tells them not to go into the last room. He leads them into his childhood rooms and rips up the floorboard where his grimoire that he wrote with his grandmother are hidden.

"No way"Bonnie says picking the book up.

"That is for Kol when we get back. I promised it to him when we made plans to m- uh visit"Damon says changing the last word quickly.

"What were you saying Damon?"Klaus asks and Damon shrugs.

"Move here, Kol and I were going to live here. There were fairies that lived on the trail to our strawberry fields but they were burnt up in the nineties. At the time we had cousins living here and I was going to"Damon trails off and Klaus raises an eyebrow. "Propose at the festival my grandmother started. I told him about going there as a child and he said he wanted to go to one"Damon shrugs scratching the back of his neck.

Stefan and Bonnie go to check out different rooms while Klaus looks at his feet. They wanted to be nowhere near the elder vampires when the fight they could sense coming broke out.

"You love me right?"Klaus asks and Damon sighs knowing what was going to happen.

"Yes and I always will"Damon responds.

"I know that I do but then I hear about how great your relationship with Kol was. I don't get how you can't be in love with him anymore. When did you know you loved him?"Klaus demands. Damon takes his hands and pulls him closer.

"You want my honest answer?"Damon asks and Klaus nods numbly. "When I first laid my eyes on him I knew he was going to be special to me. I knew right then and there that he met something to me and it wasn't until like a month later I knew it was love. Ridiculous as it sounds it was love at first sight"Damon confesses and Klaus frowns.

"Then why would you give something so special up for me, you were right there so close to having him back"Klaus mumbles.

"I won't lie to you and say I love you anymore than I loved Kol. I love you in different ways. When I was in love with him it was different than how I love you now. In fact he was my best friend before my lo- er boyfriend"Damon says trying to cut him self off, Klaus didn't need to here specifics about the relationship he had with his brother. "You, you're the fire in my veins, the one that keeps me wanting to live. When I was bitten I tried to kill myself"Damon confesses.

"What?"Klaus demands.

"I didn't have any reason to live now I do. I have tons of them. You gave that to me, doubting my love for you is doubting the trust I have in you not to break my heart"Damon says truthfully and Klaus gives him a small smile. "Kol and I that was another lifetime, I'm a different vampire now. A pregnant one at that so lets go get some blood. I have servants still running the fields"Damon baits smirking and Klaus nods gripping his lovers hand tighter before they sprint out to the town.


"Stefan"Bonnie shouts looking into the room that was at the end of the hallway where Damon's room was, five doors over.

"Yeah?"he calls back and is speeding towards her. He stops looking at the nursery that was covered in cobwebs and dust. There was a pink bassinet where the baby would have gone and little dresses all around. There were old baby toys in the corner and a bear with a big D, carved into it.

"What is this place?"Bonnie asks moving the a framed picture and carefully brushing away the dust. The old wood was brittle in her fingers and she gasps at the photo.

"A nursery, and what?"Stefan quips moving closer. He opens his mouth is shock, it was his mother pregnant sitting on a young Giuseppe's lap with a young Damon standing beside them. Stefan brushes away dust at the bottom corner of the photo where it reads, August 1844. "Damon would have just turned five, this couldn't be me"Stefan mutters.

"Are you sure?"Bonnie asks.

"I was born November 1st, 1846. Unless my mother was pregnant for two years this is not me. She got pregnant with me in Virginia and gave birth to me there"Stefan assures her. "I most definitely never heard of a little sister"Stefan mutters taking in the pink. He careful picks up a pillow that had the name, Annabelle stitched into it sloppily as if a young child did it. Stefan picks up the bear and smiles, this must have been his brothers.

"Do you think there are photos of your mom pregnant with Damon around here?"Bonnie asks and they look at each other before taking off to find them.

"Bonnie"Stefan calls and the witch sprints to find Stefan looking at what was once a master bedroom. He looked terrified and she takes his hand leading him to the photos. Stefan had never been more thankful to have Bonnie as a friend. She was trying to make him talk or sympathize with him about lost parents like his girlfriend would. No matter how much he loved Elena he could recognize that she tried to shift all the pity on to herself.

"Look it's a birthday picture, your moms eighteenth. February 27th 1838, hey wasn't Damon born June of 1839?"Bonnie asks and Stefan nods.

"She was nineteen when she had him and twenty six with me. My dad was ten years older than my mom so twenty nine with Damon and thirty six with me"Stefan answers seeing his mothers young smiling face.

"Your mom was very beautiful"Bonnie smiles.

"You can't tell but Damon looks just like her, has her eyes, skin tone, and the curled raven hair"Stefan reveals smirking.

"Curled?"Bonnie asks interested.

"Yep I'm not the only one who uses product to change my hair. If I didn't do it my hair would just lie on top of my head, bangs and all"Stefan chuckles.

"Seventeen forever, Caroline complains about being stuck in a filler year"Bonnie muses.

"I was two months away from turning eighteen, I wasn't supposed to know but Damon had one hell of a party planned. Kept him busy during the nights when he was on leave he couldn't sleep"Stefan says dusting off another photo. It was his parents wedding photo.

"What do you mean he couldn't sleep?"Bonnie asks.

"Well war time does that to people, in fact I'd sleep on the floor with a few blankets piled up so I could sleep and pretend I was back with my men. I was a lieutenant and leaving sat heavy on me"Damon confesses leaning against the doorway with Klaus. "And how did you find out about your party?"Damon demands.

"My hiding places for my journals are only crap to you because you taught me how to hide them. It wasn't hard to find yours either brother"Stefan says and Damon rolls his eyes.

"Too smart for your own good little brother"Damon says pushing himself off the doorway. "I remember this"he chuckles. The photo was of their grandmother teaching him how to dance and they had purchased a new camera. It was a bitch to deal with but their mother had taken so many photos that day.

"We found the nursery"Stefan blurts out and Damon clenches his jaw. Klaus decides he doesn't need to get in the middle of what ever was going on, it was clearly making Damon livid.

"I told you on the tour not to go in there"the eldest Salvatore hisses.

"I did it"Bonnie confesses.

"Oh right you stubborn witch you just can't listen. Why would you go in there what if there was like a spell or something to keep out intruders?"he demands.

"There wasn't"she argues.

"That isn't the fucking point Bonnie. That room was off limits for a reason"he growls advancing on her. They shout back and forth for a minute before Stefan interrupts.

"Was Annabelle my older sister?"he asks Damon who freezes.

"She was a stillborn"Damon responds.

"Was she my older sister?"Stefan asks again and Damon nods. "We saw the bear and pillow"Stefan responds. Damon just clenches and unclenches his fists to keep from lashing out. "Is that why you freaked out when I got sick?"Stefan wonders.

"Just can we not talk about this now or ever. I like that idea better"Damon decides and walks out of the room.

"How did he go from happy, to pissed off, and back to calm?"Bonnie asks.

"Damon has always had mood swings and you know pregnancy"Stefan smirks and Klaus chuckles before following Damon.

Stefan and Bonnie look around more and do end up finding a picture of Lily pregnant in 1839 it was March so she was pretty big. They don't hear the couple for the rest of the night and Stefan takes Bonnie out to the fields. When he hears his brother and Klaus he steers in an opposite direction with an amused/disgusted expression on his face.

"Have you really never been here?"Bonnie wonders while they walk on the darkening path.

"Nope"he responds pulling her away from a pothole.

"Seeing in the dark must come in handy"Bonnie muses.

"Well vampires are nocturnal predators. We're like more dangerous cats"Stefan responds. Bonnie laughs and they keep going on the trail. Bonnie hasn't felt so care free since she found out she was a witch. She was with a group of vampires who could take care of themselves. No magic powers needed for the three men to stay alive.

Somewhere deep down a voice is telling her not to trust them. Especially not Damon, who had attacked her, terrorized her, plagued her nightmares, haunted her. She said she wasn't afraid of him which was sort of true, she wasn't petrified of him anymore. But she wasn't dumb enough not to fear the vampire he could still kill her with ease. Just like she would be stupid to be so cocky again as to think she could take Klaus out. She probably would of had him way back during the ritual but she would have died killing him.

Her Grams's only wrong mission was to teach her not to fear vampires. In the end not being wary of the perfect hunter was just plain stupid and got witches killed. She heard about Bree from Elena and knew deep down that witch would have been around to help Damon if she was alive. For all her Grams's bravado she was how shaken she was from a meeting with Damon. Yet walking with Stefan and joking about how fairies use to live in the burnt forest quieted her thoughts.

"I'm being serious, Damon told me about in the nineties. He was so distraught he came to see me just because of that"Stefan tells her and she laughs again.


"I love you"Klaus says kissing Damon's stomach.

"I love you too"Damon responds and feels Klaus's smirk.

"I was talking to the baby love but I suppose I love you too"Klaus sighs.

"Oh really?"Damon asks and wiggles his toes that were pressed against the back of Klaus's knees. Klaus flinches from his only ticklish zone being touched. Damon laughs out loud and moves to get them again. Klaus pulls away and straddles Damon's waist while the younger vampire giggles.

"Stop it love"Klaus warns.

"The big bad wolf is ticklish, tell me do all your siblings know this? I bet the younger ones don't, what Kol and Rebekah would do with this starling revelation"Damon muses hand reaching for her discarded pants and slipping his phone out. He manages to dial Rebekah and shove Klaus off him.

"Damon is everything alright?"she asks.

"Did you know your brother-"Damon's mouth is covered by Klaus's hand cutting him off from finishing. Klaus reaches for the phone but Damon licks his hand so Klaus pulls away with a shriek.

"Damon?"Rebekah asks again.

"Your brother is ticklish on the back of his knees and I was just wondering if you knew"he says quickly.

"You licked me, what are you five?"Klaus demands.

"Not what you were saying a few minutes ago"Damon says going back to the phone.

"Gross and no I didn't but thanks for the info Damon, Kol will love this I'll tell him when they get to the lake. They're driving up right now"Rebekah informs them.

"Good you with Elijah and Katherine?"Klaus asks glaring at Damon who blows him a kiss.

"Yeah we're gonna go out and search for the hunters base. He had to have brought more tools. Call you later"Rebekah says hanging up.

"Are you mad baby?"Damon asks the pouting hybrid.

"Hope you enjoyed tonight love cause that is all you're getting till we get back on U.S. soil"Klaus warns and Damon gasps dramatically.

"You take that back"he growls.

"Punishment love"Klaus shrugs.

"But for who?"Damon asks doing his flirty eye thing and scooping up his clothes before sauntering back to the castle. Klaus holds in a moan, oh it was on now.


In the morning they go out to the graveyard with blood bags and food for Bonnie. Damon and Stefan walk right through but Bonnie and Klaus are stopped.

"Do we have to invite them in?"Stefan asks his brother.

"I'm not dead"Bonnie cuts in and Damon tilts his head and bites his lip.

"Klaus, Bonnie come in"Damon invites and they try again but can't get past the gate.

"Damon"a soft voice says and he whirls around to see his grandmother, Evelina's ghost. "We do not let non Salvatore's in"she explains.

"Silas, he is our family yes?"Stefan asks for clarification and his grandmother nods.

"So handsome young Stefan"she smiles at him and Stefan smiles back warmth spreading through him in ways only family could do.

"Thank you, but they are trying to help us find him"he explains.

"The Bennett witch can enter but the original hybrid remains outside"she decides waving her hand and Bonnie carefully walks in. Klaus looks pissed and Damon looks torn between staying and going with Klaus.

"What he's trying to help too"Damon insists.

"It is not just my choice our ancestors have the final vote. The hybrid stays out. We don't know Stefan the way we know you, so you have to stay and watch the Bennett witch. We are putting the entire family at risk here for your friends"she says and Damon sighs.

"Fine but I don't this just for the record"Damon huffs and goes to give Klaus one more kiss. "I'll see you soon baby. Explore a little bet you can find something interesting hidden in the castle"Damon says and Klaus nods.

"Be careful love"Klaus says and looks at the others. "That goes for you two as well don't die on me"he grins before speeding away. Damon frowns as he goes but forces a smile on and claps his hands together.

"Lets talk to dead family"he declares looking at the graves.


Salvatore Background:

So I know my ages for the Salvatore's were different in previous chapters, purely because I can't do simple math. To clear things up a little, from 1839 to the 3rd of March 1845 the Salvatore's lived in Italy. On October 13th of 1844 Lillian Salvatore gave birth to a still born little girl named Annabelle. Damon was five years old at the time. May 20th 1845 they arrived in New York and left June 5th for Virginia and settled in what would be Mystic Falls. The estate was built already and they moved right in and began a plantation. In the middle of January 1846 Lillian Salvatore becomes pregnant with Stefan Salvatore who is born November 1st of that year.

I also am making it so Lillian Salvatore died May 15th 1857, that is the only way he could have been seventeen when she died. Making her thirty seven instead of thirty eight when she dies.