A/N: Alright, so I know that I said that I would not update again until I got three reviews for the last chapter but it seems to me as if that isn't going to happen, makes me kind of disappointed but in the end all I can really think is 'Eh, oh well. This story isn't that great anyways' so I'm letting it go and am updating once again. So, here is the next chapter of Return.

Chapter Eighteen:

Ascent

Damon POV

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I didn't know what to do with all of the information that Sonya had given to me, hell, what in the name of all that is forsaken was I supposed to do with the onslaught of tidbits about her life that I didn't get to know before. I had to hear about it from Katherine-freaking-Pierce for God sake, that was the real kicker to this whole thing, Sonya didn't tell me until after Katherine had. I think that is probably what had bothered me the most about learning of her Ripper days, of her being in love with the Original vampire that was going to sacrifice Elena and the one who just so happened to be his brother but was going to kill him and of her not being related to them. I still cannot believe it, I don't think that I ever really could if I was going to be completely honest with myself, it was like the biggest betrayal of them all in my eyes.

A dark growl erupted from my throat at the thought if it all, I was doing everything within my self control not to go over to Ric's apartment and give her a huge piece of my mind, and to maybe even kill him to get my point across. That was becoming a chore in and of itself. That was another thing that was bothering me. Sonya and Alaric. Alaric and Sonya. What was going on there? Were they just friends, were the lovers? What. were. they?! I just needed to know, the vampire in me was doing everything it could think of to try and scratch at the surface for some way of releasing itself from the prison I was fashioning around it just so that I wouldn't give into my Kill Alaric impulse. It wanted nothing more than to break the man's neck and to throw Sonya over it's shoulder like a captive.

The only reason that I could think of in it wanted to do that was because it was beyond jealous, and everyone knew that I wasn't a good man to get jealous. I always tended to kill first and ask questions later and the want to do it now was no different than usual, but I knew that Sonya would be beyond upset and would probably put me down in the cell in the basement with Stefan, Ric and maybe even Elena's help until I got it through my head that it was wrong of me and blah blah blah. The same old song, same old melody and I was getting sick and damned tired of it.

Sure, I had no real and total claim to Sonya and neither did the vampire in me but that didn't stop either of us from wanting to know what the hell was going on with the two of them, they were always together too! What the hell was up with that? Since when did she basically move into his apartment with him? Seriously, that is exactly what it was beginning to feel like to me, she was hardly ever here and when she was here all she would do it maybe take a shower or a bath - how that hell was I supposed to know which when she always locked her door... Not that I ever tried to get into her room while she was doing either. And then she would grab some clothes to change into and then she would be out again, right to Ric's or would go somewhere to meet up with him. It was beyond infuriating.

I do think that I had some fault in this whole thing, I wasn't the one who would look at her longing for her to open her mouth or for her to turn her gaze from the drink in her hand hoping, praying that she would look my way. No, those were the looks that she was starting to give to me whenever she and Ric would come to the Grille and I would be at the bar with a nearly full glass in my hand and a half empty bottle within arms reach. Why wasn't I talking to her? Well, for all of the above reason's of course. But then the question was; Why wasn't I doing the same to Ric? I mean, I was talking to him just fine, well, except for all of the dark looks that I sent his way whenever he would turn to Sonya and smile. Sometimes they would even gravitate closer to each other and that bothered me even more, and then at one point they were touching and sending each other secret smiles that really weren't all that secret seeing as I was sitting there and could see them.

That has made me angry as well and all I could practically see was red, that, and me ripping Ric limb from limb for even thinking about touching what was mine. Mine... That was a thought that I hadn't had in my head in a long time, she wasn't mine, hell, she had never truly been mine and never would be no matter how much I wished that she was or how much I longed for it. No, she most certainly wasn't mine. But then again, she wasn't Ric's either, no, I wouldn't allow that either... Wait a minute, what? Ric was my friend and here I was wanting nothing more than to rip him apart and taking Sonya for my own. Hadn't I already taken enough from him as it was? Yeah, that's exactly what I thought. Who was I to take something else from him when he barely had anything left, sure, he had Jenna in a sense but they weren't really together anymore so all he really and truly did have was Sonya and I wanted to take that away?

What the hell was wrong with me?

Welp... that's chapter eighteen... I felt kind of weird doing it in Damon point of view but at the same time I enjoyed it seeing as all I have been doing is Third Person POV so this is a pretty nice change if I do say so myself... I know that this is yet again short but if I make these less than 1000 that just means that there are going to be more chapters and it wont be done quite as fast as it would if I were to go and do like 3000 words per chapter. At least that's why my logic is telling me..

Anyway, I will not update again unless I get no less than 3 Reviews for this chapter and this time I am not going to go back on this. Sorry but it's just got to be done. I hope you can forgive me...

Next Chapter we're going to go for another little time jump, this time we may see Alaric being possessed by Niklaus. I'm excited, I love Klaus. I do I do.

GO VOTE ON MY POLL, please?! You choose who you think the end pairing should be for this story. Niklaus or Damon. It's up to you.. Alaric was taken out of the poll because he only had 1 vote and Damon and Klaus had more than that, but a tie so TIE BREAKER POLL! -cheers-