Part 14 – Stefan

Damon tried hard to control his rage as Caroline conveyed what Elena told her about Stefan in the weeks after their marriage. Stefan had become distant and when he was with her it seemed as if he was being forced to be with her. He had been spending way too much time with Enzo since the wedding and only stayed close to their home when Caroline returned.

"Lena said that being with him felt different, his touch his scent… it was Stefan but it was not Stefan… Before the wedding he was fine, he was doing some very dangerous crap to deal with your loss before she wiped her mind but he seemed to start to settle once they got back together…"

"When last did you see him?" Damon asked Caroline only to be disturbed by their front door swinging open as Jackson came in with a vampire tied up in vervain ropes with a sack over his head.

"Jack?" Hayley questioned.

"Was on my way to get you and Damon for a pack meeting, found this guy skulking around the house."

"I do not have time for this" Damon growled ready to rip of the guy's head but freezing when Jackson removed the sack revealing Stefan's face.

"Stefan?"

"You know him?"

"Of course we do, he's a friend" Caroline answered.

"Thanks" Stefan said as Jackson undid the ropes, Damon looked on in apprehension.

"Caroline, I followed you. I didn't mean any harm to you or your friends." Stefan said as he glanced over Hayley, Damon and Bonnie who looked at each other puzzled.

"Stefan!" Hayley said in mock excitement hugging Stefan.

"It's been a while big brother. I thought you forgot all about me."

"It's been difficult since Damon died and with the divorce and things" 'Stefan' shrugged and turned towards Damon as he heard a dangerous growl.

"You aren't Stefan!" Damon growled as he launched himself at the doppelganger before him.

"You're an idiot. How are we supposed to find out about Stefan if he died with your bite!" Klaus scolded Damon who rolled his eyes.

"Why don't you do your freaky original compulsion find out where Stefan is and then tell him to go meet the sun like Isobel did."

"Where is Stefan?" Klaus asked.

"I don't know, my maker took him"

"Who is your maker?" Klaus asked.

"Enzo"

"I knew it… He must have fed his blood to Tom Avery before killing him…" Caroline said reaching her arm for one of the hybrids to help feed the twins who were starting to drain her again. Klaus unsurprisingly was the first to oblige

"Where do we find my brother?" Damon growled.

"I don't know he never told me."

"He's sired isn't he?" Bonnie asked Damon who nodded.

"Incendia" Bonnie incanted and the doppelganger burst into flames. The 4 vampires stared wide eyed at Bonnie.

"What?"

"Brutal" Caroline and Klaus said together.

"Kai, clean up in the basement." Bonnie called out.

"How do we find Stefan now?" Damon asked with a raised brow.

"With your blood of course." Bonnie rolled her eyes at him.

"Why would he keep your brother imprisoned here?" Hayley asked Damon as they approached the Lockwood cellar.

"No one really comes out here. There aren't any more Lockwood werewolves unless Tyler decides to off some mortal." Damon shrugged.

"I think I should go in alone… you're the element of surprise after all." Hayley suggested.

"I was about to suggest that myself. I am going to change" Damon said as he started removing his clothes.

"You're going to put yourself through all that pain?" Hayley queried.

"I found an easier way" Damon grinned as he took several deep breaths before his mist enveloped him then disappeared leaving the black wolf Hayley named her Beta.

"Cheater… you're going to have to teach me that trick." Hayley snorted and Damon lolled his wolf tongue at her before taking off to secure the perimeter for any unknown threats.

Hayley slowly crept into the crypt and found an emaciated, naked, tortured Stefan with chunks of flesh missing that had been struggling to repair itself.

"Stefan" Hayley said in a gasp of horror as she moved to untie him only to be thrown back.

"Who are you?" A dark haired vampire asked in an English accented voice.

"Your worst fucking nightmare. Why are you torturing Stefan? Why did you place that imposter in his place?"

"That would be baby Salvatore's doppelganger, I may have fed him some of my blood before he was sacrificed. As for why I have baby Salvatore that would be because he makes the perfect substitute for his traitorous brother. I hope he is watching from the other side, I hope he is hurting. I was supposed to kill Damon, I guess I should comfort myself with his baby brother." Enzo laughed sticking his hand inside Stefan and pulling out his spleen. What he didn't expect was a jet black wolf tackling him to the ground and biting his hand.

"No, no, no, no" Enzo cried ripping off his own arm before the werewolf venom spread.

Stefan watched in fascination as the wolf began to change until it took the form of his older brother, his older brother with hybrid eyes… his older hybrid brother…

"Damon…" Enzo said almost reverently looking at the resurrected vampire like some sort of avenging angel of darkness.

"Hayley, get my brother out of here." Damon requested, his golden eyes trained on the vampire who kept fucking them over, the vampire who hurt his baby brother, the vampire whose head he was going to mount on his fucking mantelpiece back in New Orleans.

"I shouldn't be surprised…" Enzo smirked as he approached the new hybrid holding the arm he ripped off.

"So you die and you get resurrected as a deadlier species" Enzo complained.

"What is so special about you, after everything you've done everything always comes up Damon."

Damon ripped out Enzo's vocal cords then snapped his neck.

"Death is too good for you." Damon sneered as he bit his once friend once more and locked him in the Lockwood cell.

Damon sat and waited for Enzo to awaken he watched the vampire try to rip of limbs as his venom spread he watched with mild interest as the fever took Enzo to dark places.

"I won't give you the satisfaction of having someone with you at the end. This is where you die Enzo, alone, haunted by your past with no one to stand by you. Your corpse will rot in here and the world will go on. No one will care. You shouldn't have touched my little brother." Damon spat then vanished into the darkness leaving Enzo screaming through the cellar bars as he delved deeper into insanity.

Stefan hadn't spoke at all since he was rescued, he showed some emotion in his eyes when he saw Damon but that was about it. Eventually Damon called Elijah. Elijah described what Stefan was going through as PTSD the incident that occurred with Silas had damaged him, what Enzo did destroyed his mind, Damon had his work cut out for him.

Damon took Stefan to another guest room but the younger Salvatore panicked and wouldn't let him leave so he carried Stefan like a child to Caroline's room and lay him on the other half of her bed.

"Care, I know you're being tired out by the magic pregnancy but can you watch Stef for me for a little while?" Damon asked cupping her cheek affectionately. Caroline held the hand on her face and nodded, turning to face Stefan.

Damon felt tired for the first time in his long existence as he and Bonnie made their way to the kitchen to join Klaus, Elijah and Hayley.

"Thank you" Damon said to Elijah and Hayley as he gave her a one armed hug before gravitating to Bonnie's side and putting his arm around her waist.

"What are you going to do about Stefan? He's basically catatonic" Klaus asked.

"I actually wanted to ask you if we can enlist the services of your friend Camille… She's a psychologist right?" Bonnie asked.

"In a matter of speaking. I will chat to her, we will take our leave, let us know if Caroline needs anything" Klaus said.

"Only Caroline? I gave you a miracle baby what if I need something?" Hayley argued the look on Klaus face made everyone laugh.

"Funny girl" Klaus smirked.

"I guess we'll be seeing you" Hayley said leaning on Damon's other shoulder.

"Am I missing something? Since when do you live here?" Klaus asked and Damon laughed.

"You're just as oblivious as Barbie"

A/N: Hi Guys, hope you enjoyed the update. I never liked Enzo's character; it felt so forced and faked, he didn't really have much relevance, they kept on trying to make him flow with the story but he never did...

Thank you to Dawnkind for the review!

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