Part I
-Damon
Hey guys, author here. I want to spend the next few chapters giving you guys insight on each of her present suitors right now and Damon ofcourse is first. They connected first and I can't just not give them time to shine.
anyways let's get started :)
When Damon enters the boarding house after feasting on a very delicious blonde, his mind flickers to a blonde he wanted taste again. Amatheia. That girls blood tasted something he's never had before. He remembers enjoying Katherines blood, even for a human-but his tiny little mermaids is way better.
Her body and soul was something that kept pulling him in. Her whole essence. He remembers the night they went out and that she was adamant on calling a 'friend date'. When he thought she was gonna kiss him he felt excited. Then her lips touched his cheek and it made him smile.
Her energy felt so good to be around, and he's mad that his brother got to have all of her before he did. When he smelled her over his brother and realized they traded more than spit he almost went on a rampage. He saw red and had to rush to his secret escape.
Had to escape in things he's gotten of her.
The vampire doesn't know how he created the room but it just made sense. He took things of hers because maybe he might never have her. And it hurts him, it really does. But that doesn't mean he's gonna give up.
Their kiss told him to hold onto her.
She may be with his brother for now but he'll have her. As he pours himself a drink, Stefan suddenly enters the parlor. Looking at him, he notices his brother seems very tense.
"What's got your forehead all wrinkled?" He speaks before sipping his brown liquor.
Stefan gives him a glance. "Have you seen, Amatheia?"
Damon lies and tries to ignore his humanity trying to slip through. Guilt tries to enter his soul but he quickly brushes it off. He will not be sorry for finally kissing Amatheia. She's his girl after all.
Hiding behind his glass, he raises a brow. "Why? Is there a reason your not attached to her hip?"
"Something happened to her, I can't explain it but I know somethings wrong. If she's not with you then-"
He finishes his sentence. "-where the hell is she!" Damon is alert now. He inhaled the air not able to smell much of Amatheia on his brother so it's been awhile since he's seen her. Could Damon be one of the last people to see her? The thought makes himself worried that Anna got to her after their moment.
"Her phone isn't ringing and I looked everywhere" He looks distraught now. Stefan sits down on the couch and buries his head in his hands.
Swallowing, Damon shifts away from him for a bit and thinks. Not too long ago Anna gave him a proposal and he actually agreed. There's no reason for her to use his snowflake, unless this is her way of ensuring he opens the tomb. In that case they need to open it now.
Downing the rest of his drink, Amatheia's words flicker in his mind.
"Damon...she isn't in the tomb"
He thought she was lying. Thought that Katherine wouldn't do that to him, that he saw the chains on her. That was proof enough.
"Well newsflash she isn't! I know she isn't because she's been running for over five hundred years".
If she's right, then he spent his whole immortal life pining after someone who obviously doesn't love him. Saving someone who doesn't need to be saved. With that thought, he slips his jacket back on. "Come on"
His brother looks at him. "Where are we going?"
"We're gonna have a chat with the little witch" If someone can help them find, Amatheia- it's her close friend Bonnie.
When they get to her house it's obvious she was napping. "You want me to look for Amatheia?"
Stefan nods. "I understand that your a witch and you've been practicing your magic now. All we need is a quick locator spell"
Damon looks at Bonnie and can see she knows something. But she hides it from them and sits up. "Someone took her after seeing me, I don't think she got home last night"
"So you'll do it?"
"Yes" She looks between them. "Any personal items of hers?"
Damon starts moving his leg up and down at that. He had plenty. He lets Stefan take out some brush of hers though and watches Bonnie take some of the blonde hair out of it. It looked almost baby doll like.
She stands to grab a map and the brothers help clear the table. When Bonnie starts the spell, Damon hopes that they can find her.
Whoever took her could want to experiment on him like the Augustine vampires did, This makes his mind flicker to his cell mate and he feels his emotions gnaw at him again.
"It's done" Bonnie's map lands on Mystic Falls but a few miles away from it.
This makes them all frown. "She's in town?"
Damon looks at both of them. "The woods circle this town"
Stefan sits up. "Come on"
This makes Bonnie stand as they walk toward her door. "Wait! Do you have an idea what could've taken her?"
"The only threat is Anna and she's not stupid enough to ruin her chance of opening the tomb. She needs us." The young witch's lips part and Damon raises a brow studying her. But instead she just tells them to bring Ama back safely and give her details.
When the door closes, Damon glances at Stefan. "She didn't even look at us when she walked us out"
His brother gets in the passenger. "I'm sure it's because she's still wary of us, Damon"
Yet Damon still had a hunch. His eyes turn to the Bennett-Hopkins house one last time before he pulls off.
When they get to the woods it doesn't take long to get her scent. Damon finds where it's strongest at and wants to scream. He picks up her phone and a leaf with her hair on it.
Bonnie's magic was no help, it just took them to where she was hurt at. Unless that's what the person who took her made happen. Stefan approaches him and he shows him her phone and the evidence.
"We hit a dead end. This just tells us she was taken like we thought" Damon looks at the ground seeing two sets of footprints that wasn't theirs.
He puts a hand on Stefan's arm. "Not quite, look at the footprints. Male"
Stefan's now hazel eyes widen. "I'm thinking vampire and strong"
And Damon finds himself agreeing. "Yeah and I can't even pick up his scent, only hers and it's barely. He had help"
"Warlock?"
The elder Salvatore shrugs. "That or witch" Same thing.
Except it makes Damon think about going to take a private visit to Bonnie. His brother can do something else because he knows how to make her talk in a way his brother may not approve of.
With that in mind, he takes out his phone. "You should visit Anna, have a talk with her and see if Ben has anything to do with this. If not, tell Elena to see if she knows anything. Amatheia saw her too today"
Stefan nods. "We meet back at the boarding house?"
Damon agrees. "Boarding house"
Knocking on her door, he can hear her heart starting to race. This makes him smirk. She opens the door, and her posture is defensive. "Any luck?"
"No, and you might've known that" He moves quickly and slams her against the wall. She lets out a small cry and he puts a hand over her neck but doesn't squeeze too tight. Amatheia would kill him. "So tell me, where is she?!"
He feels pain in his temple. It makes him drop her and he falls to the ground. He hits the floor and holds his head. Looking at the witch he feels her hurt his brain and grunts out in pain.
She holds him down with just a look.
"Don't ever, put your hands on me" Her assault lessens and he's able to speak.
Staring into her fiery green orbs, he feels respect for her. "All we found was her cell and some hair. There was male footprints there telling us someone took her"
A gasp leaves her and she stops her assault completely. This alarms him. "She told me I had nothing to worry about"
"Witchy" He stands and she starts to look scared. Her eyes look at him and there's fear and worry for her friend. "What are you talking about?"
He sighs. "The one who's coming for her, Klaus"
Even though he's never heard the name before, he feels the need to be scared. The name is old, older than him. And if Amatheia talked about him to a witch and Bonnie at that, it must be serious.
"Who the hell is Klaus?!"
Bonnie makes a face. "I did some research, and only know from what Ama told me. He's one of the original vampires and was born with the werewolf gene"
Werewolf gene. This makes Damon wonder what the hell else was out there. Mermaids, witches, vampires, and now werewolves existed. What's next? Goblins?
"He wants to become a full hybrid and unbound the werewolf side that a witch suppressed. And Ama called him while she was in Chicago"
Pause.
Damon's eyebrows raise and he's angry. "She called some ancient vampire?!"
Bonnie nods timidly. "You can't be mad at her though, she did it for a reason"
"Yeah? Well tell me why the hell she did"
She sighs and starts messing with her hands. "Calm down, she did it because she knows how to give him what he wants, without anyone getting hurt"
This makes Damon deadpan at her. "Newsflash, Bon Bon- everyone gets hurt. It's some weird supernatural bad luck this town has"
"I believe she can handle herself, she seems to know this guy better than I do"
"Maybe she was told bedtime stories on him" Damon says snarky. He just wants her safe and she goes calling an original vampire. Damon can imagine that he's like super powerful and strong compared to him.
He stands. "Anything else about him I should know? Any poisonous bite or shape shifting?"
She shakes her head. "Not that I know of. Damon you know how stubborn she is. If you do something stupid-"
"I'm not" He lies and she sees right through him. "Okay, i'm not gonna do anything that could get her hurt. I just don't want Stefan moping around the house if we find out this Klaus killed her"
Bonnie flinches at this. "You sure your only worried about dealing with an emotional Stefan?"
"What else would I be worried about?"
She deadpans at him and it makes him suck his teeth. He thought he was better at lying than this. Amatheia is changing him even more.
Her face says- You know who.
"Don't forget i'm a witch, I see bullshit. You care about her, maybe even like her" She suddenly steps toward him and touches his wrist.
He watches her eyes glaze over and her hand tightens around him. Trying to pull out of her grip, it doesn't work until she pulls away as if he burned her.
Her face scrunches up and her lips part.
"What'd you see?"
She shakes her head and her eyes are focused again. Her heart is racing. "Nothing, you really care about her"
Yeah, in his own little way.
Stefan doesn't come back till later and he doesn't have much. He had to kill Ben because he tried killing Caroline. Then he informed Elena of their missing person and she arrived at the boarding house with him. Apparently she knew something about some sacrifice that has to do with breaking Klaus' curse. How she knows, she doesn't tell. Damon now knows that there must be some connection with Amatheia and this Klaus. He hates how jealous he feels because of it.
"So what'd you find?"
Damon looks at the two. "Not much, just that this Klaus may have been the one that took her"
"What if she doesn't come back tomorrow"
"You mean what if he doesn't bring her back" Damon corrects.
Elena rolls her eyes. "So we have nothing on where he could've taken her?!"
Stefan nods solemnly. "Klaus must've cloaked her or something. Either way, a witch is involved"
Damon has to admit, Elena being jealous is getting annoying. He wonders if she told Amatheia how she feels, if so that's another person wanting her heart. It makes him feel unsettled. Why can't he ever get the girl?
But no, he has to steal them from everyone else.
"We have to get her back, there's no telling what he'll do to her"
This makes Damon join their conversation. "I have a feeling what he'll want to do" His mind goes to the gutter and it makes him squeeze the tumblr in his hand thinking of this Klaus touching his snowflake.
Because that was like a no, no. He imagines saying that in his Caroline voice. That thought makes him roll his eyes because this was his new life. Basically hanging out with kids.
Stefan's eyes turn angry and he can see the ripper slipping through. But then, his brother the martyr is back. "Don't say that, Damon. I'm sure he'll just use her for her blood"
Snorting, Damon smirks. "Why? Worried little Ama will find someone better than you. Stronger?"
Stefan glares at him. He gives him hard eyes. "Childish as always, Damon"
Not getting the reaction he wanted, Damon stands. "Fine, don't think about it. But Stockholm syndrome is a thing"
In vampire speed, Stefan leaps toward him, but Damon saw it coming. He moves to behind Elena startling her.
"Your getting too predictable, brother"
Stefan glares at him silently before taking a deep breath. He then sighs and sits back down on the couch opposite from Elena. "Does anyone know what Klaus looks like?"
No and that was the problem. "If we did we would have more to do. All we can do is honestly wait and hope that he brings her back"
"She has to be worth more alive then dead" Damon says shrugging. He loves riling up his brother.
"Right" Elena says.
Two days go by in a blur and no sign of Amatheia. Damon compels her teachers to excuse her and not to contact her father. He even makes sure that her grades don't slip.
Everything's been quiet and so badly he wants to see her tiny freckled self walk through the boarding house like she owned the place. He wants to hear her beautiful accented voice and stare into her unique blue eyes. She certainly was magical.
Damon notices Elena getting closer to Caroline as a way to probably fill the void from Amatheia being missing. Bonnie frowns herself in her spell books and practices with her Grams. He told the witch to keep him updated on anything she can find out about Klaus since she's starting to get weird dreams.
Bonnie won't share the dreams with him, but he has a feeling they're bad enough that she doesn't trust him to have the information. But they still work together, for Amatheia.
He searches on anything he can about Klaus and if him and Amatheia are connected in sny supernatural way. He decides to take a visit to Georgia for just that.
"You want me to do a spell on you?" Bree stares at him incredibly.
He gives her a pinched smirk. As much as he dislikes this witch and her unhealthy attachment to him, he'll do whatever he can to save his snowflake.
Nodding he runs his finger around the rim of his drink. "Mhm, I need to find out anything on Klaus"
Her eyes widen and she bends her head so no one hears her. "How do you know of him?"
"So he's as scary as his name is? He has something...important to me"
She squints her eyes at him. "Stole your girl i'm guessing."
He doesn't answer her.
Bree lets out a dark laugh. "I'd like to see the girl that has you so whipped, Damon. Tell me this- does she know your secret?"
"Of course she knows i'm a vampire"
Bree pinches her lips together. "Not that one" He gets ready to ask her but she changes the subject. "I'll help you, on one condition"
"Name it"
She smirks at him. "I need your blood"
Suspicious. "For what?" He whispers.
Sucking her teeth she crosses her arms. "Does it matter"
Yes! His mind flickers to some creep with four fangs touching his snowflake. "Fine"
She smiles and he wonders what she's up too. "Good choice, follow me"
They're in some sort of basement. It's set up in a witchy kind of way and she takes his blood first. Then she stashes it in a vial and begins the spell. That's when he feels it, the pain.
Dropping to the floor, his pupils roll to the back of his head and he holds his head. Twitching, Damon grinds his teeth together and that's when he sees it.
There's fire, it's huge. Dead bodies are laying around and that's when he sees him. He knows who he is just by the power he gives off.
Klaus.
His dark lips curl into a smirk as he holds her close, possessively. His arms snake around her waist and she's putty in his hands. Damon steps closer feeling the need to stop it. The sight upsets him but he also knows she's in danger.
He moves toward them and is blocked. Pounding on the invisible bubble, he widens his eyes as Klaus makes eye contact with him. His dark blue orbs turn amber and he watches as his mouth latches onto her neck.
She screams, and it's so loud.
Gasping awake, Damon looks around. That- it- he growls and moves toward Bree. His hand wraps around her neck and he quickly shoves his hand in her chest. One wrong move and she's dead.
"What was that? It didn't tell me anything!" He barks.
She chokes on her own blood. "I didn't see what you saw, the spirits chose what to let you see. Any time in the future, is supposed to help you"
It didn't give him anything. Didn't tell him when it was gonna happen, if it was happening tonight. Nothing. "She died in it, I said I want to save her!"
"Then it g-gave you that for a reason. To give you time to change it. Whatever happens from here and then will determine her fate" Her hand touches his wrist. "But Damon, no matter what you change you might not be able to change fate"
That's not what he wants to hear. He doesn't wanna hear that she may die no matter what he does. That they only gave him that vision because he needed to prepare to lose her. He doesn't want to lose her!
Taking his hand out her chest. He lets her hit the ground and snarls at her. "Tell those bitches if they are the reason her life is in danger, they better find peace instead of dealing with me"
He steps on the blood he gave her and is satisfied at the crunch under his shoe.
Her eyes are watery and she's trying to breath again. Being a dick, he grabs her shirt and uses it to wipe his hands off. With that, he walks out and heads up the stairs.
If only he knew that she used her magic taking the blood that spilled on the ground and was still able to use it. He'll never see what she had planned for him.
It's dark when he gets back. For some reason he finds himself going to her house. No lights are on so he heads inside. Then he smells it, her. His ears hear her breathing and her heart beating calmly.
She's back.
Speeding to her room, he stands behind her and watches her brush her hair absently. She looked fine, like she wasn't gone having him worried sick. Her eyes meet his own and she's as gorgeous as she was when she left.
"Damon" She says his name and it has him cracking. He needs to be near her. She turns and realizes that he's standing centimeters away now. As he smells her sweet natural scent it makes him want to taste her blood again. It seemed so long since he's had a taste.
She backs into her vanity and her breathing stops as she breathes him in. Stepping closer, he grabs a strand of her hair wanting to feel her soft strands all over again. His care and love for her makes him almost give into his humanity. So he masks it.
Instead, he smirks at her and hears her heart start to race. It widens more. "Your back"
She swallows and nods slowly. "Yup, i'm back"
"Where have you been?"
She starts thinking. Her mind does that thing when it wanders a forty miles per second and she leans into his touch. Her dark orbs glance at his neck and he tries not to shift under the now hungry look she has. She grabs the wrist that touched her hair and holds his gaze.
"Damon, I need you" Her voice cracks and makes him fall deeper into her spell. She looks so emotional, like it kills her to not have him. This makes him excited. Her hand is shaking and she raises the other to touch his shoulder. A shiver leaves him as she grazes her finger over his pulse point.
As he inhaled deeply he feels his eyes darien more with hunger. Need for her. "You don't mean this"
It has to be a joke. Ashton Kutcher should come out of her closet and tell him he's just been punk'd. What happened while she was gone for her to finally want him.
Her head shakes and he feels her tug at him. Pulling him flushed against her. "I-I do. Please"
He decides to take advantage of this. "Say it, tell me you want me"
"I want you, Damon. I need you." Those words are the end for him. She's his drug, his kryptonite. And he should be ashamed at himself, but anyone would be on their knees begging for a taste of her if they had her in their life.
Those words make his mind flicker to his promise to wait for her. And man was it worth it. "What are you doing to me, baby" He whispers before crashing his lips against her own.
Author here, hope you guys like this chapter. Let me know if I should do Elena next. It seems Damon finally got the girl, but how long will that last? And what is Bree up too?
Lets not forget about the Klaus and the dreams Bonnie is having. What a crazy vision Damon got. He's ready to protect his snowflake at all cost, lol.
