Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to The Vampire Diaries, TV show or books. However I decided to have a little play around with the characters (I would definitely like to play with Damon).

Although I'm not using the same plot as S5, there are some parts which are useful. I will continue to use those, but it will be adapted to my story. So please don't be concerned about me using these little bits. I am not re-writing S5. I'm just utilizing a few bits of the plot.

Damonfangirl Regarding whether Silas has the ascendant or not is currently part of the mystery. There are 3 cures, Katherine and the 2 prison worlds. Silas is still immortal as far as the Mystic Falls gang know. Katherine hasn't been bled dry, so if Silas does have a cure, it has to come from one of the ascendants. Also having the ascendant does not mean having the cure. If they have the 1903 ascendant, it would take Silas and the Travelers a long time to get it from the island as they don't have enough magic for a transportation spell, which takes a lot of power. They need someone like Bonnie to do the spell, otherwise they'd need to walk from Mystic Falls to Nova Scotia in the snow.

Therefore the only accessible ascendant for the Travelers is the 1994 cure, however we don't know whether the Gemini Coven hold the 1903 prison world ascendant, or whether it is the 1994 ascendant.

When the Travelers gave Damon the werewolf venom, the MFG didn't know whether the protection spell the Travelers had put on Elena, Stefan and Damon would save Damon. I can tell you (as it is my story) that Damon wouldn't have died, however he would have gone made with the hallucinations. That is all I can tell you for now. Any more would be a spoiler.

Elena, Caroline and Bonnie stared at Megan's dead body when Bonnie suddenly screamed.

"What are you doing?" Caroline growled through gritted teeth.

"What any normal sane person would do, because there's no hiding this." Bonnie whispered. "You're not supposed to be vampires, you're meant to be, so act human. Look scared, shocked, you know, as if this is something you've never seen before." she said.

"She's right Caroline." Elena agreed. "Oh my god. Oh my god." she suddenly began to panic loudly.

"Help...help..." Caroline shouted as people came running across to look at the body.

"I'm calling the police." a voice said.

"We should give her some space. And not let anyone get near her until the police arrive." Caroline said in her compulsion voice, to as many people as possible. She knew it was possible to compel multiple people at once, but she wasn't sure how many she was capable of compelling so Elena decided to join in.

"I agree." she said looking at a group of five people. "We need to give her space and make sure nobody goes near the body until the police arrive." she said.

About nine people over all helped them clear the space around Megan while they waited for the police, who were surprisingly quick, taking only about five minutes to arrive. Once they got to the scene, the police cleared away the gawking crowd which surrounded the body, including Elena, Caroline and Bonnie.

"What is happening?" Elena shook her head. "Our roommate is dead, there was a vampire at the party..." she tailed off thoughtfully.

"We don't know what she knew or who she told." Caroline shrugged. "We should get out of here."

Elena's eyes widened with horror. "Caroline, I left that message on her voicemail!" she said in a panicked voice.

"Don't worry, I took her phone." Caroline assured her.

"What?" Elena cried as a policewoman approached them.

"Hey, girls? I'm Dianne Freeman, I'm head of Campus Security." Dianne introduced herself. "Are you girls okay?" she asked.

"Um..I think so." Elena nodded.

"Yeah, I guess." Bonnie replied while Caroline simply nodded.

"I understand Megan was your roommate." Dianne looked to them as they all nodded to confirm her assessment. "I'm so sorry you had to find her like this." she said sadly.

"Do you know what happened?" Caroline asked.

"We found a note." Dianne told them. "Apparently she was struggling with severe depression." she said.

"Wait, what do you mean you found a note?" Elena turned to Bonnie and Caroline, looking at them suspiciously.

"Your roommate took her own life." Dianne told them.

"You think this was a suicide?" Caroline raised a suspicious eyebrow.

"She didn't seem depressed." Bonnie narrowed her eyes.

"We're convinced it was a suicide." Dianne insisted. "But we can't seem to find her cell phone. Have you seen it?" she asked.

"No." Caroline shook her head.

"Okay. If it turns up, let us know?" Dianne asked as they simply nodded, before Dianne walked away.

"What is going on?" Elena whispered.

"I'm guessing suicide is the Whitmore college version of animal attack." Bonnie replied.

"I'm calling Damon." Elena said as she took her phone out of her pocket.

"What can Damon do?" Bonnie asked.

"You don't think this is what he was up to with Stefan do you?" Caroline put her hands on her hips. "Damon's a lot of bad things Elena, and I'm perfectly happy to list them for you, but even I don't think he did this." she shook her head.

"I never said he did." Elena frowned. "I just think he might know something about it." she said.

"How?" Bonnie asked. "I thought he was back at your place, shopping for wood. How would he know anything about this?"

Elena thought for a moment. She knew she couldn't tell her friends about Damon's time as a lab rat, as it wasn't her story to tell. But it was potentially relevant. However, she realized they now needed to know about the Augustine vampire project. The more they knew the better, as they didn't want to be in danger should anyone find out they were vampires. So she opted for a semi-truthful version of her knowledge.

"Damon told me he'd heard some old stories about this college." Elena told them. "He didn't go into a lot of details, but let's just say once upon a time there were rumors of a vampire being held here in captivity." she said.

"And you didn't think to tell us this before because...?" Bonnie raised an eyebrow.

"As far as Damon knew, the vampire died." Elena shrugged. "It's a really old story from the fifties." she said nervously. "I didn't think there was any reason to mention it." she added innocently.

"And how does Damon know this?" Caroline raised an eyebrow.

"Word gets around?" Elena shrugged.

"And Damon was absolutely sure the vampire died?" Bonnie asked, as Elena started to wonder if maybe Damon was mistaken and his friend survived after all.

"That's what Damon heard." Elena insisted. "Look I need to call him." she said as she walked off and took her phone out and called Damon.

"Well if that vampire died, then it looks like they found a replacement." Bonnie sighed.

Damon and Stefan were putting everything they could fit into Stefan's apartment. It was clear the baby shower was going to have to be delayed as Elena was likely to be coming back later instead of staying at the dorm now that Bonnie and Caroline had a roommate. The problem was, Caroline had given them a large list, and Stefan's apartment was very small. The living room was so packed full of baby items, such as chairs, buggies, diapers, clothes and things babies needed; it was impossible to move. Just as they were about done Damon's phone rang, which he answered as soon as he saw it was Elena. He suspected she wanted him to come collect her.

"Hi sexy, you want me to come and get you?" Damon asked, getting straight to the point.

"Not sure." Elena replied. "Are you alone?" she asked.

"If you want phone sex, all you had to do was ask." Damon smirked. "I'm with Stefan, but I'll find somewhere private." he told her with a grin as he vamp-sped from Stefan's apartment and back to the house. "Okay, I'm all yours. What do you want me to do first?" he asked.

"Damon!" Elena chided him.

"What? This isn't phone sex?" Damon asked, pretending to sound disappointed.

"No." Elena replied. "I think we've got a major problem with Bonnie and Caroline's roommate." she said.

"So she does know about vampires?" Damon raised an eyebrow.

"Well she found out about them." Elena told him. "Right before one killed her."

"What?" Damon frowned. "There's another vampire on campus?" he asked.

"Yeah." Elena replied. "Megan was upstairs in Whitmore house and whoever it was, was chasing her. Then she was thrown out of the upstairs window, I think." she told him. "When the police came, they said it was a suicide and she was depressed. But there were bite marks on her neck." she said.

"I thought she was on vervain." Damon said.

"She was." Elena replied.

"So whoever drained her, must drink or be exposed to vervain on a daily basis, and lots of it." Damon said thoughtfully.

"Why would anyone choose to drink large doses of vervain?" Elena asked. "To avoid compulsion you only need a small amount." she said. "You don't think they found a..." Elena looked around to make sure nobody was listening. "A replacement for you and your friend." she whispered.

Damon thought for a moment. "They must have." he frowned. "Your dad was doing experiments in the nineties. I never thought about who he was doing the experiments on." he said.

"Either that or your friend survived." Elena suggested. "Megan did say it was a man chasing her." she said.

"Could be." Damon frowned. "Although I doubt it."

"Don't you think Caroline and Stefan should know about this?" Elena asked.

"Why?" Damon replied.

"Just so they can be on the look out for anything out of the ordinary." she said.

"Why don't we include the wicked witch of the west and let everyone have a good laugh at my expense." Damon snapped.

"I doubt anyone will laugh." Elena said sadly.

"Okay, even worse than laughing, they might feel sorry for me." Damon said grumpily. "I don't want a pity party." he told her.

"I'm not saying that Damon." Elena pinched her nose in frustration. "But if they are still doing experiments, don't you think it would be a wise idea that Stefan and Caroline know instead of ending up in a cell like you did."

"Fine, I'll tell Stefan." Damon grumbled.

"And Caroline?" Elena asked.

"Do we have to?" Damon replied sweetly.

"Damon!" Elena snapped.

"Okay, okay." Damon sighed. "Looks like we're having a Salvatore slumber party tonight.

An hour later, Caroline's car drove up the gated driveway and parked outside Damon and Elena's house. Elena, Caroline and Bonnie all got out and walked in, following Elena to the parlor where a nervous looking Damon was stood by the wet bar and a confused looking Stefan sat on the couch with a glass of whiskey in his hand. Elena went over to Damon and wrapped her arms around him as she knew this was asking a lot from him to open up to something traumatic about his past. However this was no longer about just him, this had implications for all of them.

Damon kissed Elena on the head and poured three more drinks, one for Elena, one for Caroline and one for Bonnie who was ready to refuse but changed her mind when she saw the stony expression on Elena's face. Damon moved to stand in front of the lit fireplace while the other three sat down, Caroline on the couch next to Stefan, Elena sat on the end of the couch nearest Damon and Bonnie sat next to Elena.

"Okay so what's going on?" Caroline asked. "You brought us all the way here when we should be spending our first night in our dorm, instead we're here. What has this got to do with Megan?" she asked.

"You know I said Damon knew some stuff about Whitmore?" Elena started as she looked to Damon before turning back to Caroline.

"Yeah." Caroline raised an eyebrow.

"Well I think it's best if he tells you himself what happened." Elena said.

"Just get on with it." Bonnie said quietly.

"Ground rules." Damon started. "No laughing, no pity party and no guilt trips." he said looking pointedly at Stefan. "Pinky swear?" he asked sarcastically.

"Damon." Stefan frowned. "Just tell us what you know." he sighed.

"Okay." Damon shrugged. "Have it your way. Don't say I didn't warn you." he glanced over at Elena who knew as much as Damon made it sound like a joke, this story had the potential to devastate Stefan, which was why Elena had warned Caroline to stick close to Stefan after Damon had said his piece because Stefan might need a friend when he heard what Damon had to say. Caroline had initially been dismissive, however after Damon's little speech Caroline was beginning to seem more on edge.

"Nobody is going to judge." Elena sighed. "Not you anyway. You didn't do anything wrong." she added taking his hand in hers and rubbing circles on his knuckles, which she knew soothed him.

"Well that's the million dollar question isn't it?" Damon shrugged as he perched himself on the arm of the couch next to Elena, as if having her close would make the story easier to tell. "Okay so best place is to start at the beginning." he said turning to Stefan. "Do you remember dear uncle Joseph?" Damon asked his brother.

"Of course." Stefan looked at Damon apprehensively. "You killed him."

"Granted I did kill him." Damon admitted with a nod of his head. "But do you know why I killed him?" he asked.

"I dunno, because he pissed you off?" Stefan frowned. "Look Damon, I don't know why you kill people. Quit stalling and get to the point." he huffed.

"I killed him because dear old uncle Joe, sold us out to the Augustine society." Damon folded his arms.

"The who?" Stefan raised an eyebrow.

"The Augustine society." Damon stood up and poured himself another drink. "They would have taken you but I made sure they didn't find out there were any other vampires living at the boarding house by killing uncle Joe before he told them. By the time you got there, they'd gone and you were safe from them finding out about you." he said.

"And you?" Bonnie asked. "What happened to you?"

"Funny you should ask that." Damon frowned.

"They took you instead." Caroline said as Damon nodded. "What did they want?" she asked.

"They wanted to find out how a vampire's body worked." Damon explained. "How it healed. How it reacted to pain. How much pain a vampire could withstand. I'm sure you get the picture." he lowered his eyes as Elena grabbed his hand and looked up at him, smiling proudly. Elena knew telling everyone about this secret, was as hard for Damon to reveal, than it was to have his cornea removed.

"They...tortured you?" Bonnie's face screwed up in disgust.

"Nice to know you care." Damon replied with surprise at Bonnie's response. "They called it medical research." he told them.

"And you let them?" Caroline asked.

"I didn't have much choice." Damon sighed. "They vervained me, kept me weak by barely feeding me. I couldn't fight back." he said.

"How long did it last?" Stefan finally spoke.

"Five years, give or take." Damon shrugged. "They kept us in a cell, kept us weak, and did all kinds of experiments on us every day."

"Why didn't you ever tell me?" Stefan whispered.

"Does it matter?" Damon asked.

"I matters to me." Stefan replied.

"Us?" Caroline interrupted.

"I wasn't the only lab vamp rat in there." Damon told her, deciding Caroline's question was easier to answer than Stefan's. "There was another guy, Enzo, or 12144, as they called him."

"What was your number." Elena asked, trying hard not to cry, even though she'd already heard the story before. He'd never mentioned them being assigned a number instead of a name.

"I was 21051." Damon told her as she squeezed his hand once more. "Look long story short, Whitmore college was where we were held. Now as far as I know, Enzo died the night I escaped. But we do have reason to believe there is another vampire being experimented on." he said.

"You think this is the vampire which killed Megan?" Bonnie asked.

"When a vampire drinks a human with vervain in their system, they stop as it hurts. Even if they consume a little every day." Damon explained. "The Augustine research vampires have vervain injected into them every day. And possibly large quantities too. Probably more after I escaped." he said quietly.

"How did you escape?" Stefan asked.

"That's another story for another day brother." Damon replied. "One which is not particularly relevant to this sordid tale." he added.

"Unless Enzo is the vampire who killed Megan." Caroline said.

"He can't be." Damon shook his head. "But there might be a way to find out."

"How?" Stefan asked.

"Elena, your dad's journals. I know your mom gave me access to some of them. Do you know where his research ones might be?" Damon asked. "Or were they destroyed in the fire when John Gilbert torched his surgery?" he asked.

"The office was already cleared out." Elena shook her head. "Aunt Jenna did it. I think she took some of the stuff up to the Lake House." she said.

"What about the stuff in your parents bedroom closet." Stefan suggested. "I know at the time we were interested in the old Gilbert journals, but weren't there some of your dad's journals there?" he asked.

"It wouldn't be in there." Elena shook her head. "Jenna didn't know about that. They're probably in the spare bedroom." she said.

"Great, we'll see if there's any reference to them in there." Damon smiled grimly.

"We could go tomorrow if you want?" Elena suggested.

"And then do what?" Damon sighed. "What if it really is him?"

"Then we rescue him." Elena said.

"But he killed our roommate." Bonnie frowned. "Why would we rescue him? What has he done to deserve being rescued?" she asked.

"Enzo's only real crime is being in the wrong place at the wrong time, just like Damon was." Elena insisted. "Damon told me a little of some of the things that were done to him. And trust me, I wouldn't even wish it on Klaus." she said.

"That bad?" Caroline asked looking shocked.

"If we find dad's journals, then I'll let you read a page or two." Elena said. "But I'm guessing it might be an idea not to eat or drink blood before, it might come straight back up." she said, burying her head into Damon's chest and wrapping her arms around his waist as he gently held her, reassuring her he was okay.

"Why didn't you tell me!" Stefan stood up.

"No need to ruffle your hero hair Stefan." Damon shook his head. "What would have been the point? Would it have saved Enzo and me? Of course not. You didn't know I was there when it was relevant. Would it have done anything other than potentially fuel a guilt ridden ripper binge?" he told him. "The best thing I could do was say nothing." he said.

"And that's why your humanity was off all of that time." Stefan sighed. "How long was it off for?" he asked.

"Fifty years, give or take." Damon shrugged. "But that is not the issue right now. Let's just say it is Enzo in there. How do we rescue him? Because if we do, they're going to want a replacement vampire. And I'm not willing to risk putting any of you through that." he turned to Caroline. "Not even you Blondie."

"Nice to know you care." Caroline said sarcastically as she folded her arms.

"How come Elena knows all about this, but this is the first I've heard." Stefan asked, still clearly upset Damon had never confided in him.

"Elena is going to be my wife and the mother of my child." Damon replied. "She is the only person in the entire world who has any right to know everything about me." he snapped.

"We can't just leave him there." Elena interrupted them. "He could stay here until he's rehabilitated." she suggested.

"And who's taking the psyche classes to help him?" Damon asked sarcastically.

"I am." Bonnie held her hand up.

"It was a joke." Damon rolled his eyes.

"Surely it can't be that hard." Elena begged. "He was your friend Damon."

"Okay." Damon agreed. "If we find out the vampire is Enzo, then we try to help him break free and help return him back to society. If not, we just make sure we keep well away from anything to do with the Augustine society. Deal?" he asked as everyone nodded their heads.

"And what about Ric?" Stefan asked. "Shouldn't he know all about the Augustine society?"

"He should brother." Damon agreed. "Right now he's trying to find out from the Gemini Coven which ascendant is missing. Is it mommy dear or Norman 'Kai Parker' Bates." he continued. "So brother, tomorrow, I need you to give Ric a quick run down on the Augustine society, while Elena and I go to the Lake House and go through the journal's, see if there is anything in them." he told them.

"What exactly do you want me to tell him?" Stefan asked.

"As much as you want to." Damon shrugged. "If Ric has any questions he can ask me later. We might know more by then anyway." he said. "In the meantime however, I think we've done enough delving into my past for one night. I'm turning in. Elena, do you wish to join me?" he asked, holding his hand out.

"Thought you'd never ask." Elena smiled as they stood up and walked off to their bedroom.

Once Damon and Elena had left, Stefan, Caroline and Bonnie looked at each other in shock. They could tell it had been hard for Damon to open up about what had happened, his jokes and bravado hadn't hidden anything from them.

"Wow, I can't believe he never told you." Bonnie said to Stefan.

"I know." Stefan sighed, his eyes cast down.

"It must have been pretty horrific if Damon had his humanity off all of those years." Caroline frowned.

"Damon didn't turn off his humanity because of the torture." Stefan swallowed. "Something else drove him to it. And I suspect it might be something to do with this Enzo person." he said.

"You think he felt guilty for managing to escape while this other guy potentially died?" Bonnie asked.

"If you'd have asked me a year ago, I'd have said Damon doesn't understand the meaning of guilt." Stefan shook his head. "But now I'm not so sure. Maybe guilt is his trigger for flipping the switch. Before I thought it was because he liked being the way he is...or was." he put his face in his hands as Caroline rubbed his back. "I can't believe he told Elena before he told me." he said sadly.

"Maybe he was trying to protect you, like he said." Caroline suggested. "You'd have felt really guilty if you'd have know what had happened and he'd been through to protect you. I mean, look at you now. Back then you'd just spent all of that time turning your life back around. How could he tell you?" she asked.

"Why not?" Stefan asked. "His emotions were off. He could have gloated." he said.

"But that's not Damon." Bonnie frowned, confused at the fact she seemed to understand Damon better than Stefan. "He's not the type of guy to gloat about something like that. He prefers to keep things to himself. Although you're right about him opening up to Elena. In fact, I think that's kinda sweet." she smiled.

"What's sweet about it?" Stefan frowned.

"That he's found someone who he feels he can be his true self with." Bonnie explained. "We get the occasional glimpse of the real Damon Salvatore, but only Elena actually knows him. They're like an extension of each other. They can't hide anything. And they trust each other implicitly." she continued. "They're friends first, lovers second. I just hope some day I find someone like that." she sighed.

Stefan looked thoughtful for a moment before briefly glancing over at Caroline, a look which didn't go unnoticed by Bonnie. She made a mental note to let Damon and Elena know about this small development. Maybe that was the type of push Caroline and Stefan needed.

The next day Damon and Elena set off for the lake house to hunt for Grayson's journals. Damon had been reading the ones Miranda had told them about, which had still been at the Gilbert house. Jeremy had taken them to Richmond for Damon to look through, to use Grayson's guidance as a father. Oddly, it seemed Damon possibly understood the two different versions of Grayson more than Elena did.

When Elena had found out about her father's experiments on vampires, she couldn't understand how the gentle man she knew, could be capable of such cruelty. Damon had calmed her down by suggesting he may not have done the same type of research Damon had experienced as times had moved on, and so had the advancement of medical science. From what Damon could tell, this had worked, and Damon had hoped he would never have to revisit the topic again. That was until Megan was killed and Elena connected the dots by realizing the culprit must have been a research vampire. Now the journals were going to reveal exactly what her father had done to his test subject, and he couldn't hide behind ignorance. If Grayson had been as cruel as Dr Whitmore, which he suspected was the case, he just hoped Elena would be able to forgive her father as he had.

Damon knew Miranda had given him Grayson's journals for a reason. At some point in the future, there was a good chance his daughter would find out about his own terrible past, and she would be in the same position Elena was in at this point in her life. In that respect, Damon and Grayson weren't very different. Although Grayson wouldn't be able to give Damon advice on how to handle the situation, in some respect, Damon was already getting a preview of what would happen when the time came for his daughter to discover his past. Her reactions might be different to Elena's, but at least he had some idea of what to come. And for that, he would forever be grateful to Miranda for having the foresight to prepare him for what could possible become the hardest day of his life as a father.

What Damon wasn't prepared for, was how to deal with Enzo, if indeed his old friend was the vampire who killed Megan. He and Enzo had made a pact to kill the descendants of Dr Whitmore. At first Damon had carried out this pact, and the last family member he'd killed had been when his humanity had been off in 1997. If Elena hadn't have become pregnant, he was supposed to have killed off the next generation of Whitmore's over the summer, leaving just one family member as per his and Enzo's agreement. But he hadn't gotten around to doing it, and he wasn't even sure if he wanted to anymore. Every time he'd killed a Whitmore his switch had been flipped. But now he could no longer justify killing innocent people for the sake of a fifty year revenge plot, to which didn't even involve the people he was killing. Now his reluctance to kill the Whitmore's over the summer might have turned into a blessing. If the vampire was indeed Enzo, Damon could rationale his reasons to not kill the family of his torturers, because Enzo would see Elena, Jeremy and maybe even his own daughter in the same light. He would have to convince Enzo not to continue with the revenge pact. Instead, he would simply suggest targeting the current tormentor. He just hoped Enzo could keep his humanity switch on and they could help him back into society without revenge on the brain. This had been one of the main reasons he'd been reluctant to rescue his friend, if indeed he was still alive and being tortured by the Augustine society.

After a drive in relative peace, they pulled up in Damon's car outside the lake house. They sat outside for a few moments taking in the enormity of what they were about to do. Somewhere, inside the log cabin, was a link to Damon's darkest past. A part of Damon's life which he'd tried hard to block out. He'd never expected to have to confront it again, especially here of all places.

Elena looked at Damon before they got out of the car. No matter how much Damon had tried to suggest her father might have been practicing in different experiments, Elena wasn't an idiot. She knew he was trying to appease her. Elena was dreading what she was going to find out about the things her father had done. Damon had suggested she didn't read the journals, instead he would look to find out who the test subject was, after all, that was the purpose of the visit, to see if it was Damon's friend who was being tortured.

Damon wouldn't go into detail of how he escaped the torment, however she had now come to realize this was the reason behind Damon flipping his switch for fifty years, not the torture itself. Elena was also fully aware Damon didn't want to face Enzo. His guilt for possibly leaving his friend behind was too much. Elena on the other hand suspected if Damon could confront his guilt, and reconcile with Enzo, then it would have a positive impact on Damon's life. This could even be a project for Damon to take on before they got involved in the Silas situation once again.

Elena opened the door and they let themselves in. There was a hint of dust in the air as it had been a few months since anyone had stepped inside the cabin. Luckily it was September, so it wasn't too cold, but out of force of habit, Damon walked over to the fire and lit it, while Elena turned the lights on throughout the house. Once they'd gotten themselves settled, they made their way upstairs, hand in hand, to the spare bedroom. Once inside they opened the closet and began to search for the boxes containing Grayson Gilbert's medical journals.

Damon stacked up the boxes of journals, which included various journals throughout the century, stretching from Jonathan Gilbert in the 1860's, down to Grayson and even John Gilbert himself. Damon just piled the boxes, one on top of the other and carried them out of the closet and put them down on the bed. There they started to sort through them until they found six journals which belonged to Grayson, four of them looked to be his handwritten medical journals.

They put the rest of the journals back and took two each. All they were doing was flipping through the pages to find a reference number for the vampire Grayson had been working on. As Damon opened the pages and began to scour the notes for what looked like a specimen number, Elena was reading slowly. This is what Damon had been dreading. The last thing he wanted was for Elena to read the details of the torture inflicted upon the poor soul who was locked inside the cell until they had their daily routine of torment.

Damon snapped the book out of Elena's hand. "Elena, I don't want you to read this stuff." he told her.

"I'm a big girl Damon, I can handle it." she stuck her nose in the air indignantly.

"You might be able to, but you are getting distracted from the task at hand. We are looking for the number 12144 written anywhere." Damon told her. "If you find it, then we know Enzo was the vampire your father was experimenting on." he said.

"Fine." Elena sighed. "I won't read details until I've scanned through for that number." she said as she quietly started to flip through the pages, dragging her fingers down the page as she went through each line looking for Enzo's number. "If we do find his number, what do we do?" Elena asked.

"I'll text Stefan and ask him arrange a Scooby gang meeting for when we get back." Damon replied. "If we're breaking Enzo out, we're going to need a plan of epic proportions, which will probably require the assistance of humans." he said.

"Why?" Elena asked.

"Because in all probability, we are all going to need inviting in from the current owner of Whitmore house." Damon explained. "That is where the entrance to the lab used to be. That of course, is unless they've updated their facilities since 1958." he said. "If they are suspicious of vampires, they won't give out verbal invitations, unless they want you as a permanent resident in their cells. Which means humans only." he added.

"Here!" Elena suddenly shrieked. "It's here." she pointed at the page with the number written down.

Damon took the book from her and began to read.

December 14th 1998.

Test subject 12144

Results show the recovery rate from rabies was 24 hours without vervain. Adding 50ml of vervain to the subject, slowed down the healing by 12 hours. Once recovered, I used 100ml of vervain, which again increased the recovery rate by 12 hours.

Damon stopped. "I think that's enough." he said closing the book getting his phone out. "We know your father worked on Enzo, which means there's a good chance he was the one who killed Megan." he began typing out a text.

"Is that to Stefan?" Elena asked as Damon nodded. "Can I look at the rest?" she asked, taking the journal from Damon's hand without waiting for an answer. Damon closed his eyes and waited for what he knew was going to come. "Oh my god!" she cried as she dropped the book, ran into the en-suite bathroom and threw up into the toilet.

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