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CrystalAris: Yes, as the show points out, you can be a Siphon and a Vampire at the same time, you'd just be a Heretic. I wanted to give Damon people that wouldn't try to fundamentally change him, everyone is so judgemental because he's the first 'bad guy', and they just dismiss the fact that Stefan is just as bad. Damon should have had real friends, he shouldn't have just been a loner like they made him in the show.
After a much more in-depth talk, Damon and Enzo escorted Liz downstairs, to the cell in the basement, "We only have the one cell available, Liz," Enzo said, with a little sympathy, he didn't think that she'd want to stay in the same room as Miranda, but there wasn't really another choice.
"It's fine," Liz replied, she wasn't pleased with what had to be done, but Damon especially, didn't feel like he could trust her with their secret yet, and she supposed he had a point, she wasn't sure what she believed about them, but the only way that she would be able to get to know them was to agree to being compelled. "Will you call Caroline?"
"Maya'll bring her over," Damon replied, pulling out his phone, "They won't be long."
"I'll get you something to drink," Enzo said, locking the cell.
Both Vampires headed back upstairs and Miranda turned to her friend, "They locked you up here, just like me! You should have killed them! Now we're both at their mercy!"
Liz scowled, she was not in the mood for Miranda's crap, "I'm not at their mercy!" she snapped back, "Unlike you, I'm keeping all my memories!"
"What?!"
"They're gonna compel you to forget about them, but they're just going to compel me not to tell anyone that doesn't already know about them."
"How can you be okay with this?!" Miranda shook her head in horror, it was like she didn't even know her best friend anymore, "They're monsters!"
"They saved Caroline when Logan kidnapped her! Enzo saved Maya, when your daughter nearly murdered her!"
"Elena didn't do anything! Stop saying that! It was an accident!"
"THAT SHE CAUSED!"
/ / /
"Oh boy," Enzo winced at the volume of the women's argument, "Maybe we should put Liz upstairs, keep her away from Miranda."
"Nah," Damon shook his head, "Let 'em argue, with all these secrets being revealed, you don't have to be a genius to see that Liz is eventually gonna blow. At least this way it's nowhere near us."
Stefan walked into the Boarding House, brows furrowed as his Vampire hearing picked up the sounds of two women fighting, "What's going on?" he asked his brother.
"The Sheriff and Elena's mom found out that we're Vampires, now they're locked in the basement while we wait for the vervain to leave their system so that we can compel them!" Damon replied cheerfully.
"WHAT?!"
"You heard me." the elder Salvatore shrugged.
"Damon you can't just lock people up whenever you feel like it!"
"Well if you wanna let your girlfriend's mom go so that she runs off and tells the council all about us, that's on you. But Liz agreed to be here, so do what you want Stef!"
Stefan scowled and rushed downstairs, he had to make sure that Elena's mother was ok.
"Elena, we need to talk," Stefan said, as she let him in the house.
"What is it?" she asked.
"It's your mother…" he started.
"What about her?"
"She knows that Enzo, Damon and I are Vampires," he sighed.
"What? What are you talking about? How did she find out?"
"I'm not sure, but she told the Sheriff, and she sent her to go and kill Enzo."
"Oh my god! Where is she?" Elena realised that she hadn't seen her mother since the morning.
"She's locked up in the cellar at the Boarding House."
"WHAT?! What the hell Stefan!"
Stefan held up his hands trying to placate her, "Damon locked her up, he's waiting for the vervain to leave her system and then he's going to compel her to forget about us being Vampires."
"I want to see her!"
"Elena-"
"Now Stefan!"
/ / /
Caroline brought two bags full off stuff for her mother, "Mom!" she said, widening her eyes at cell, "Seriously Damon! Do you have to keep her in this thing?!"
Liz's eyes widened, she couldn't believe that her daughter was being so reckless as to argue with a Vampire. "Caroline-"
"No Mom! It's not okay!" she glared over at Damon, "Take her upstairs! Now!" she demanded.
"Ugh Caroline!" Damon groaned, "If I do that then someone needs to be in the house all day until she can be compelled."
"So hang around the house for three days," she cocked an eyebrow at him, "It's not like you have job."
"I don't like the tone you're using with me," Damon said.
"And I don't like the fact that you have my mother locked up in a cell!"
"Fair enough," Damon acquiesced, "Fine, as long as she promises not to try and escape, you can go pick out a room for her." He motioned upstairs and Caroline smirked.
"Great! Let her out will you." She flounced off upstairs as Liz stared at her, her jaw practically on the floor.
Damon rolled his eyes and walked over to the cell, "You-you just let her talk to you like that?" Liz asked, she knew what her daughter was like, but she couldn't believe that she felt comfortable enough around Damon to speak to him like that, especially when he could rip out their throats in a heartbeat.
Damon shrugged, "She's Caroline, what am I gonna do?" he let her out, and gestured for her to follow him, "Come on, if I know Barbie, and I do, she's picked the room on the third floor, on the west side of the house, it gets great sun."
/ / /
Elena had Stefan bring her over to the Boarding House immediately, she needed to see for herself what was going on, see if she could convince Damon to let her mother go, and convince her mother to not tell anyone about Damon and Stefan. Her mom couldn't be missing for three days, what would she tell Jeremy? "Mom!" she gasped as she saw her locked in a cell, "Damon!" she snapped at the older Vampire, who'd come back downstairs the moment he heard the Gilbert girl enter the house. "Let her out!"
"No," Damon replied bluntly, in no mood to be delicate about it, and certainly in no mood to be spoken to like that, by someone who didn't even know him.
"Damon!" She almost stomped her foot, "You can't just keep her here!"
"Elena-" Stefan tried to cut in but Damon didn't let him get out a sentence.
"I can, I will, and you can't stop me."
Elena let out a sound of frustration and pushed passed him, she reached for the door, but Damon snatched her hand away from the lock and twisted her arm, "Aah!"
"Damon!" Stefan snarled, he lunged for his brother but Enzo was down the stairs in an instant holding the older, yet weaker Vampire back.
"Don't even think about it," Enzo growled.
"Elena!" Miranda exclaimed in fright.
Damon snatched Elena's necklace off, ignoring the burning in his hand his eyes narrowed in preparation to compel her.
"Damon no!" Stefan struggled against Enzo's grip.
"You are not going to go anywhere near the cell door, you are not going to try to help your mother escape, you are not going to tell anyone about where she is." He pulled back and let the compulsion settle in and she stumbled away from him in shock. Damon stalked over to his brother, shoved the necklace at him, and leant in close, "The next time she gets in my way, I'm gonna compel her. To. Forget. All. About. You." He left the room and Enzo sped after him.
Damon sighed as he reached the top of the stairs and looked over at his lover, "I need a vacation."
"You certainly do," Enzo agreed.
/ / /
The moment Enzo let him go, Stefan took a shaking Elena into his arms, holding her close, it had been a long time since he felt fear like that, he was just glad Damon hadn't chosen in that moment to do something worse. "Stefan!" she gasped, gripping him tightly.
"I'm sorry," he whispered, "I'm so sorry Elena."
"Let her out Stefan." Elena said, "Please!"
Stefan looked at the cell door, and the woman trapped behind it, he knew that his brother was right, Miranda clearly wouldn't let go of the fact that they were Vampires, "I can't," he said, he knew that even if he didn't believe that his brother was right, Damon would stop him the moment he tried to let Miranda out.
"Stefan!"
"I'm sorry Elena, I told you, as long as I feed on animals and not humans I will always be weaker than him! If I try to let her go, he'll stop me, you saw it for yourself.
/ / /
Maya burst into Jeremy's room with a grin, she was undeniably happy that her Aunt was locked up in the Salvatore basement, (it served her right, trying to kill Enzo by sending Liz to do her dirty work). "Jer Bear!" she said, "You're Mom's locked up in the Boarding House basement!"
"What?!" Jeremy exclaimed jumping up from his desk, "What are you talking about?"
Maya sighed and dropped onto his bed, "Your Mom found out that Enzo was a Vampire, and sent Aunt Liz to go and kill him."
"WHAT?!" Jeremy's eyes widened, he knew that when it came to Enzo, Maya didn't play around, she wouldn't let anyone hurt him, not even Damon, and she loved Damon. So the fact that his Mother had even attempted to try to kill Enzo, he had the feeling that the only reason that she was still alive was because of him. If Maya didn't love him, then she would have killed his Mom, he knew that, deep in his gut.
"Yeah," Maya nodded, "So she's locked up for the next three days, the vervain will be out of her system then she'll be compelled to forget all about them being Vampires."
"But-"
"Relax," she waved him off, "She's your Mom, they won't hurt her."
"Are you sure?" he asked sceptically.
"Of course I am," Maya said, "As long as she doesn't know that they're Vampires, she's not a threat. And if she's not a threat, the guys won't hurt her."
Jeremy winced a little at the pragmatic way that Maya described her thought process, something had changed with his cousin recently, he didn't now what it was, but she was different. She'd always had a degree of separation, when it came to anyone she didn't care about, but this was something else, now she was almost…cold. Jeremy didn't know what had happened to his favourite cousin, but whatever it was, it wasn't good.
/ / /
Elena sat in the parlour in the Boarding House, curled into Stefan's chest, she couldn't believe that Damon had compelled her. Whenever she'd interacted with the elder Salvatore, she'd always counted on Stefan being able to protect her, she hadn't really understood it when Stefan said that he was weaker than Damon, she'd thought he'd only meant weaker by a fraction. But Damon was terrifying, and clearly, anyone he didn't care about, meant next to nothing to him. "Stefan, I can't trust my Mom here alone with Damon," she said.
"She won't be alone," Stefan replied, "I'll stay here the whole time, I won't leave for a second."
Elena shook her head, "And if Damon does something? How are you going to stop him?"
Stefan paused at that, he never wanted Elena to see how strong Damon was compared to him, but now that she had, she was scared, "I think we're going to have to go to Maya."
"What?" she asked shocked.
"Hear me out," he pulled back, "Maya loves Jeremy, we've both seen that she's willing to set aside her differences with you in order to keep him safe. She can help protect your Mom, for Jeremy's sake."
Elena faltered, she didn't like her cousin, she didn't trust her cousin, but she knew that Maya adored Jeremy, she didn't want to have to, but she'd suck it up and talk to her so that her Mom was safe.
Jenna sighed as she came home in the morning from Alaric's apartment, she'd headed upstairs straight away, Alaric was a nice enough guy, they'd been dating for almost two months now, but she still had yet to bring him home with her, and it wasn't because her house was supernatural central. Alaric was smart, and kind of funny, he could hold his liquor…but there was something missing between them. It wasn't even that she was keeping secrets from him, because she knew that he was keeping secrets from her, she understood why. It was just…the spark that she'd felt for him had fizzled, and maybe she could bring it back, if she threw herself into their relationship…but did she really want to? Did she want to lose herself in a relationship with just a regular old History Teacher? Did she want to spend the rest of her life in the small town of Mystic Falls? No. She most certainly did not.
Jenna knew that her daughter had no plans of sticking around town for long after she graduated high school. Maya had a future that was embroiled with the supernatural, a plan that was 6000 years in the making, and a freaking Viking waiting on her to spend eternity with. Up until recently, when Maya talked about Klaus, she had a light in her eyes, and an excitement in her tone that told Jenna everything she needed to know about her daughter's future. And damn it! Jenna wanted that for herself too! She had given everything to ensure that her daughter had the best childhood possible, and that was no easy feat for a 17 year old, for a single mother, in a small town, that still believed that getting a divorce was a scandal. Jenna had endured the slut shaming, the stares, the glares, the laughter at her expense. And she endured it, because she loved her daughter, and wasn't going to let a town full of small minded people ruin Maya's childhood. But Maya was 18 in less than a year, she already had a successful business up and running, more than one property in her name, Maya was going to get to do everything she ever wanted in her life, of that she was sure. So Jenna wasn't going to settle for 'okay', she wanted more, she was going to get it. And she was going to start by breaking up with Alaric.
Maya walked into Damon's place in the afternoon, bringing a litany of baked goods with her, she knew that Liz was not comfortable in the Boarding House, she needed time to be away from the Vampires in her life so that she could get used to them, but for the next two days, she couldn't. Caroline was staying with her Mom in the west wing of the Boarding House, and Maya had come over to keep them company, (also so that Liz felt a little more protected). "Honey, I'm home!" she called, causing Damon to whoosh downstairs.
"Mmm, I smell goodies," he practically sang.
"No!" Maya yanked them away from him, "These are not for big bad Vampires."
"Oh come on!" he complained, following her upstairs.
She walked into Liz's room, causing the two blonde occupants to direct their attention to her, "I said no Damon!"
He rolled his eyes and reached for them anyway, but yanked his hand back as he was shocked, "Hey!" he protested, "You're mean, you know that?!" Damon spun on his heel and marched out of the room, pouting.
Liz watched the exchange with wide eyes, originally feeling alarmed, but then realising that not only could Maya protect herself, she could protect others, and she wasn't shy about using her abilities. "Hi Aunt Liz, Sunshine!" Maya smiled, "I brought presents!" she presented them with the baked goods, which had Caroline immediately grabbing for them.
"My favourite!" Caroline smiled.
/ / /
Elena walked into the Boarding House, cautiously, no longer like she owned the place "Stefan?" she called hesitantly, and the younger Salvatore was in front of her in an instant.
"Elena, what are you doing? Damon's still here." With her new found fear of Damon, they'd agreed that she would only come over when he wasn't there.
"I know," she replied softly, "I have to talk to you."
"What is it?"
She glanced around, "Can we talk somewhere…more private?"
Stefan whooshed them to his room, knowing that Elena would prefer to spend very little time in the communal areas of the house. "Okay, what did you want to talk about?"
"What exactly is Damon going to compel my Mom to forget?" she asked.
Stefan frowned, "The fact that we're Vampires, any suspicions she's had about us. And she'll forget her time here."
"So she's not going to remember anything that's happened here?"
Stefan shook his head, "No, I imagine that Damon will make her believe that she was sick and spent the last three days in bed. Elena, what's going on?"
Elena sighed, "We've been looking for information on my adoptive parents, and so far we've come up with nothing. I'm gonna ask Mom about them."
"And if she doesn't tell you?"
She looked up at him with her big doe eyes, innocent and pleading, "I was hoping that you could help me."
"Elena," Stefan shook his head, "My compulsion is weak, it won't stick."
"It doesn't need to," she insisted, "You said Damon's going to make her forget. I just want to know where I come from Stefan, why I look like Katherine, I need to know Stefan. Please."
Two days later, Liz and Miranda were released from the Boarding House, fresh compulsion locked in both of their minds. Maya, Jenna, Damon and Enzo were packing for their upcoming trip to Greece, at Maya's request they were headed to the coastal city of Kavala. What they didn't know however, was why she'd picked that particular location. It was in that city, 800 years ago, that Maya had lived as a part of the Gemini Coven, lived in peace with the woman that she loved, Cassandra, the Siphon turned Heretic. Her memories of that time were mostly peaceful, right up until the Trinity had arrived and ruined everything. But that wasn't the main reason why she was going, the moment she'd seen the name of the city, she'd felt a pull towards it. The last time she felt that pull, she'd ended up at one of the places where the veil between life and death was at its weakest. She believed that meant there was another veil there, she could see Death again, and she was desperate for an audience with her creator.
/ / /
Jenna had one thing left to do before the four of them left for the airport in the morning, and that was to break up with Alaric, maybe it wasn't the greatest idea to break up with him before Christmas, but she didn't want to leave him hanging over the holiday. "Thanks for meeting me," she said as Alaric took a seat opposite her at the Grill.
"No problem Jenna," Alaric smiled, "What did you want to talk about?"
"Ric I uh- I don't want to beat around the bush, I don't think that we're working out."
Alaric's smile dropped when he realised what he was there for, she was breaking up with him, why? What had he done wrong? He thought that they were having a great time together. "What do you mean? We've been having fun together." He reached for her hand but she pulled away from him.
She sighed, "I know it's only been a few months, but, to be honest, I don't see a future for us."
Alaric shook his head, "What are you- I don't-"
"When you think about the future, where do you see yourself?" she asked, trying for another angle.
"I dunno, married, a couple kids, tenure…I- I don't know what you expect me to say."
"Alaric, I had Maya when I was seventeen, I had to grow up really fast, and now that she's old enough to take care of herself, I want to focus on me, have fun, and more kids, settling down, that's not what I want. I deserve to have the life that I want, and so do you. I can't give you the life that you want. I'm sorry." She stood at that, she always hated breakups, but she didn't want to drag things out, and there was no point wasting Alaric's time. Her daughter had a literal eternity ahead of her, and Jenna, she didn't know what her future looked like, she had more options than the average person, and she wanted to explore all of it. "Goodbye Alaric." She left the Grill quickly after that, she didn't have much time left before they needed to head to the airport, and she still had to finish packing.
Elijah had just slaughtered a bevy of Vampires and compelled humans that had targeted a family of five, three women and two men. Elijah had been tracking the members of the Malraux pack, every lead he had, had ended up at a dead end. Until now. These five were supposedly the last members of the Malraux pack in existence, but they didn't appear to know it, they couldn't fight back against the Vampires that were attacking them, they had no enhanced strength or senses. They were untriggered.
Elijah knocked the head off of one of the Vampires that had tried to attack him from behind, distracting him from the untriggered Werewolves plight. A compelled human had landed on top of one of the women. She cried out, scrabbled for a rock, and used it to hit her attacker in the head, killing him instantly. Elijah killed the last of the Vampires and made his way over to the battered and bloody group. The men stepped in front of the women in an effort to protect them, holding onto their ribs, panting heavily, there was no way that they would be able to stand for much longer.
"Who the hell are you?" one of the men managed to gasp.
Elijah dismissed the man, eyeing the woman who had just made her first kill, the next full moon wasn't for another few weeks, which meant that she had time to adjust to her new reality, but he could tell that even with recent events, they would be hard to convince. "What's your name?" Elijah asked the woman.
The woman narrowed her eyes, already starting to feel a little better, so she stood up straighter, "Keelin."
"Well Keelin, your family and I have much to discuss." He made to move in closer when his phone made a sound, indicating a new message. The noble Original pulled out the device and was met with a text message consisting of three lines, a time, a date, and a location.
It was the 14th December when the Sommers household (Jenna, Maya, Enzo and Damon) arrived at a beautiful coastal villa in Greece. Jenna looked around in wonder, dropping her suitcase on the floor, "Forget L.A, let's move here!" she said, causing her daughter to laugh.
"It is beautiful," Damon admitted, "Good choice Sabrina."
Enzo was admiring the view, it turned out that winter in Greece was just as beautiful as the summer. He'd closed his eyes, taking in the fresh sea air, feeling Damon join him at his side, "Do you think, after we're done with Mystic Falls, we could settle somewhere like this for a while?" he asked.
Damon looked over at his lover, "We can go wherever you want," he said, he would do whatever he could to make up his past sins to Enzo, and if the younger Vampire wanted to spend his time unwinding in a Mediterranean country, then so be it.
Enzo smiled, and leant in for a kiss, Damon responding in kind, things getting quickly heated, "Hey, hey, hey!" Jenna snapped her fingers, causing the two to pull apart, "You know the rules! Anything above PG-13 is to be done strictly in your room!" Maya shot the two of them a smirk which turned into a startled expression as her mother rounded on her, "And you! Absolutely no activities that could be classed as over PG-13! Are we clear?!"
/ / /
It was the evening when Jenna went out into the old town of Kavala, Panagia, she was meeting someone for dinner, and she was dressed to impress, in an elegant, yet sexy, navy blue cocktail dress, her hair in a stylish updo, with silver dangly earrings, and a sparkling clutch. She smiled as she was guided towards a table on the patio of the restaurant, and Elijah stood to meet her. "Hello Elijah."
"Jenna," Elijah said, taking her hand, and leading her to her seat, "I must say, you look ravishing."
Jenna fought a blush, "Your lines don't work on me Elijah."
"Ah, but it's not a line, you are, in a word, stunning." His eyes darkened as he took her in across from him, and she looked away, fighting a grin.
"Keep it up Elijah, I'm not sleeping with you."
Elijah shrugged, "Good, I don't plan on getting any sleeping done tonight."
That finally caused Jenna to let out a peel of laughter and Elijah joined, "It's hard to believe, but you are getting smoother!"
"You bring it out of me," he smirked, settling back into his chair, "You know, I thought you said that you were not going to go on vacation with me."
"I'm not on vacation with you, we just happen to be in the same city, halfway across the world," she shrugged.
/ / /
Maya was walking the streets of Panagia by herself, a hot chocolate in one hand, just admiring the architecture of the old town. Not wanting to ruin their romantic evening, she'd elected to give Enzo and Damon time to themselves at the villa. As she traversed the streets, she wondered what her mother was getting up to, she'd rushed out of the villa, dressed to the nines that night, it was perplexing to say the least. They didn't know anyone in Greece, so she couldn't have been meeting anyone. Sighing, she turned the corner and dropped her hot chocolate in shock, as she stared at two people across from her, enjoying dinner together. She slowly walked over to them standing just in front of them, waiting to be acknowledged.
Elijah looked up the moment that he sensed another presence nearby, eyes narrowing as he took in Niklaus's Witch. Jenna followed his line of sight the moment that she realised that his attention had diverted from their conversation. Her eyes widened, "Maya!"
"WHAT THE FUCK?!"
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