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klausysworld · 1 year ago

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Your stories are so good!

How about a story where Klaus gets in over his head and ends up being taken captive by Augustine but falls in love with one of the scientist over the time he’s there.

(Made it the scientists daughter, not sure why? I think I read the ask wrong and then just got too deep with it. I can make another one if this wasn’t what was wanted)

(TW:This does include physical and psychological abuse form Y/n’s father! Please don’t read if this will be too upsetting for you and know that you are not alone.)

Betrayal

Klaus often went into dangerous situations without much of a plan, he was immortal and he used that to his every advantage. To be fair to him, this always worked in his favour except for that one time with the hunters curse but other than that it was fine.

Until now.

He woke with a groan, his eyes felt heavy and his body was stiff. Forcefully, he forced himself to look around but his face was against the ground. With a grunt, he managed to roll onto his back. His breathing was struggled and released in puffs. A hum reached his ears and he turned his head slowly to see a man, no a vampire sat in a cage or a prison cell opposite him.

The guys clothes were filthy, bloody and muddy. Hair greasy and growing a touch long. He gave an unserious wave "congratulations, you've been captured" he cheered sarcastically and Klaus frowned. The vampire rolled his eyes "¿no hablas inglés?" he questioned "français? Italiano? Polski?" he fired, clearly bored.

"Where-" Klaus frowned at the dryness of his throat and tried to clear his throat but it caused a painful sensation "Where am I?" he asked, raspily.

"English" the man stated, nodding to himself. "Right uh you are in an experiment where they do fun little tests on us vampires because they have an undying hatred towards us" the man explained, laughing tiredly to himself when he said 'undying'.

Klaus stared at the man like he were mad. "Tests? What sort of tests?" he questioned, frustrated and the vampire shut up. He glanced behind Klaus before back to him nervously

"They're trying to make a serum to make vampires have the uncontrollable urge to feed on other vampires...to rip their heads clean off. Be stronger, unstoppable and filled with hatred for our own" he explained quietly as though someone may be listening. Klaus frowned in response and slowly dragged himself up into a sitting position against the cold wall of his cell.

Vampires who rippered other vampires? It reminded him of his father and he didn't exactly want to think of him. Nor did he want to feel this week, how much vervain had they pumped him full of? He groaned loudly and the other man hummed in agreement.

The sound of a lock went and the vampire opposite Klaus quickly got to his feet, holding onto the bars like a desperate animal.

The soft clicking of heels sounded and the mans face immediately relaxed slightly, his eyes looking eagerly for whoever was coming. Klaus was hit with a strong scent of vanilla before a soft sigh was heard and he could see the back of a women. Her hair hiding her shoulders and the top half of her lab coat. She wore small black heels and a coat.

"You okay?" she asked the guy opposite him, handing him something, blood. He could smell it and he needed it. The vampire scoffed it down immediately with a sound of pleasure.

"mm thank you darling...I don't suppose you have another for me?" he purred but she shook he head

"It's for the new one" she whispered and Klaus's senses perked. She proceeded to turn towards him and her eyes looked him over. Klaus let out a breathy laugh, this was who was supposed to be testing and torturing him? He raised both his brows and licked his chapped lips before pulling them into a smirk. In response she only rolled her eyes "those eyes won't work on many people here" she told him, she placed the paper shot glass of blood onto the floor and carefully pushed it into his cage. "You'll be known by 52836, answer to it or they’ll burn it into you so you remember it" she informed, watching him reach forward and grabbing the drink.

"This is all I get?" he questioned, his nose scrunched and his browed pulled together.

"One a day. None if you misbehave. You'll feel better tomorrow when you have less vervain in your system, until then keep quiet. 12144 will be here with you...get comfortable" she murmured, a certain sadness and level of pity in her eyes as she gave a tight lipped smile to both vampires before leaving.

12144 looked back to Klaus, "You can call me Enzo, she's called Y/n. One of the mean ones daughters, been coming down here since she was small. She doesn't mean much harm but she's too scared to go against the rules" he explained with a shrug "Sometimes she sneaks me two portions if she can. She touched me once, just a hand on the shoulder. I was far too weak to respond but I knew she was there"

Klaus stared at Enzo for a moment before glancing to his now empty cup. What the fuck did he just get himself into?

It was the question he asked himself every morning and every night. To start off with he fought back against the scientists, yelled and screamed demanding to know who they thought they were, making empty threats and hoping his family would find him.

Klaus began to feel a little pathetic, he was hoping? That wasn’t like him. He was strategic and powerful. So he tried to pay better attention. After a few weeks, he was able to understand why Y/n was so obedient. Her father was dreadful. She once suggested that Klaus needed a break after watching blood poor out of his eyes, her father proceeded to grab her and threaten to stick one of the syringes in her neck. She sprinted out the room as soon as she was let go and Klaus couldn’t blame her. It made him think of Mikael and how he would hold a sword against his throat.

He had sympathy for her, empathy too but unfortunately he had to push that aside and instead of help her, he would manipulate her.

He would ask her about the little marks on her skin knowing it was a result of her trying to help him. Enzo would shake his head and occasionally speak up, telling Klaus to leave her be when her discomfort became clear.

“I don’t mean to upset you sweetheart” Klaus murmured, his hand reaching between the bars to brush against her arm making her flinch and pull away. “You don’t deserve to be hurt. I know that, Enz- 12144, knows it too. You’re good and sweet” he told her, his hand reaching to touch her but she wouldn’t let him. “I could help you” he whispered, his eyes flicking to Enzo’s but he just looked annoyed.

Y/n shook her head and left quickly and Enzo sighed. “You shouldn’t do that to her” he mumbled “you’re only making her hopeful”

“I haven’t lied. If she were to let me out then I’d happily slaughter that father of hers. Then she’d be safe” he smile sarcastically

“I wouldn’t let you kill her too. She hasn’t done anything cruel since the first day I met her” Enzo muttered solemnly

“I don’t plan on killing her” Klaus stated simply as he looked down at the extra cup of blood she had given him. He wasn’t sure what he’d do to her but he wouldn’t kill her, scare her maybe but he didn’t really want to kill her.

The two vampires sat back down in their cells. Preparing themselves for the torture to come. Occasionally it wouldn’t come, instead they would hear the sobs of a fear stricken Y/n as she begged the ‘scientists’ to give 12144 and 52836 a day off. It was those moments that made him soften for her.

When she would come down to where they stay with trembling hands and cups of blood.

As she handed the small offering to Klaus, he slid his hand out to grab her wrist gently. She immediately flinched and dropped the blood making her breathing escalate in panic.

“It’s alright” he soothed, pulling her closer to the bars so he could put his other hand on her cheek.

“I’m sorry” she whimpered “I’ll get more”

“It doesn’t matter sweetheart” he murmured, caressing her face gently and wiping the tears away. “I had two cups yesterday anyway” he reminded and she sniffed with a nod. “Come here love, let me hold you” he whispered, tugging her closer despite the shaking of her head a the cry that left her lips. Enzo watched with furrowed brows as Klaus managed to wrap his arms around her. Y/n’s body was pressed against the bars, still shaking as the vampire caressed her back slowly. Klaus looked over her shoulder to Enzo as Y/n melted against him. With hesitancy Enzo nodded and relaxed.

After nearly a full minute, he let her go and watched as her tearful eyes looked at his. Silently she turned around and left, whispering softly to Enzo on her way out.

Said vampire narrowed his eyes at Klaus “What game are you playing with her?” He asked lowly

“We need to get out. She needs to get out. This is how we do it” he mumbles

“Make her trust you and then use her? Like that will help her. You’ll only hurt her more” he sighed and Klaus rolled his eyes, sitting back down on the dirtied floors and shutting his eyes.

Y/n tried not to look him in the eye after that and she went back to pushing the cup of blood towards him instead of handing it to him. He could tell and Enzo could tell that something deeper was wrong. And it was only when it actually happened did they understand what.

It was Klaus’s turn to be shackled down and tested on. What he wasn’t ready for was when one of the scientists came in dragging Y/n by the wrist. He forced her infront of Klaus and shoved a syringe into her hands. She shook her head and begged no but as soon as her father stepped into the room she knew she had to do it. With one devastating look to Klaus, she injected him with the substance.

They made her test his blood and his reactions all afternoon, claiming that it was a good learning opportunity and she should finally get involved in the family business.

By the time she was finished, Klaus couldn’t see nor hear, he was certain for a moment that he was finally dead but eventually he woke a few hours later back in his cell.

After that, Y/n rarely brought them blood, she couldn’t face them. And when she had to face them, it was because she had to hurt them and that was even worse for everyone.

Neither vampire blamed her, they didn’t fight her when she would touch them. They would simply let it happen and internalise as much of their pain as possible so she wouldn’t cry as much.

Occasionally the other scientists would leave and she would immediately try stop their suffering. Asking what she could do. Enzo assure her that it was fine and she would hold his hand for a small while and feed him some water. Klaus would ask her to distract him which always confused her and ended up in a splurge of rambling so that he would be able to focus on something else. The amount of random stories that girl had told him wonder if she was just making them up on the spot but he didn’t mind if she was. Often she would caress his hand or shoulder as she spoke to try and give a sense of comfort.

One day, when Klaus was supposed to still be knocked out, she was in his cell with him. She had been told to clean the blood from the floor so that it wouldn’t smell and not to worry about 52836 because he wouldn’t wake for another hour. They underestimated his strength and the fact that Y/n would try sneak extra blood.

When he woke, his eyes slowly found her. She was down on her knees, scrubbing at the ground with a sponge quickly. It was clear she was on edge. She made it clear when she glanced over to him a few times. Only one of those times did she realise he was looking back at her and when it hit her she froze.

Klaus made sure not to move either, he wasn’t sure if the cage was open or not and he didn’t know if she would scream if he moved too quickly. He watched as she slowly began to stand up, he hesitantly moved his arm out and let his hand touch her ankle. A sound left her mouth as she went still again and watched him wrap his hand around her. “Can you help me sit up?” He asked quietly and reluctantly she nodded.

He let go of her and helped push himself up as much as he could while she supported the majority of his weight. She whispered her apologies as she managed to get him up and leaning against the wall.

“Thank you sweetheart” he whispered, his hand finding hers. She swallowed thickly but held his hand and sat beside him staring at the ground blankly.

Enzo was in the other room, being tested on as usual so Klaus had her to himself for a moment.

His eyes flicked to the lock of the cell, it was open and he knew that if he drained Y/n now that he would make it out. He felt her shuffle a little close to that she could transfer some of her body heat to his, and sighed to himself. Slowly he wrapped an arm around her and pulled her close. “You’re not like them” he whispered, holding her closer.

“I don’t want to hurt you” she whispered sadly and he closed his eyes, cursing himself silently.

“I don’t want to hurt you either” he uttered “I’m sorry” he told her, just before lowering his head and sinking his teeth into her neck. He squeezed his eyes shut to try block out her cry of pain and confusion. Her blood burned down his throat with the vervain she’d ingested but regardless of the toxic herb, he could still feel his strength returning. Her hands desperately tried to push him off, sobs echoing through his cell as he drank. Klaus tried to be a gentle as he could but her squirming made it so difficult.

When her heart began to slow, and her her breathing quietened, he pulled his mouth off. She looked up at him with a look that could only be described as betrayal and fear. Still, he picked her up in his arms and kissed her head “it’ll be okay my love” he whispered, carrying her with him as he pushed the cell gate open. “I’ll be back” he promised, putting her on the ground, ignoring her cries as he went into the torture room.

After draining the three scientists in the room and tearing the shackles off of Enzo, he came back and picked up Y/n. Enzo was furious and took her straight off of Klaus, promising her that he had no idea this was what would happen.

The three of them managed to escape the building and Klaus broke into a random car, beckoning Enzo with Y/n into the back as he managed to get it started.

He glanced in the rear view mirror as Enzo stroked Y/n’s hair while she shook and cried and asked if her father was still alive.

Klaus’s eyes met Enzo’s in the mirror as he stepped on the gas. Neither had any idea what to do now.

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littlelordfuckler0y · 2 years ago

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enzo st. john x fem!reader Instagram au

hi anon if you’re seeing this I hope you like it :)

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yourusername mystic falls autumn how I missed you

@gilbertelenaaaa mystic falls missed you too

@yourusrname I didn’t go to war man I was just getting masters

@dam0nsalvat0re oh I heard the rat problem is back

@bonbonniie he literally crossed boxes in calendar each day till ‘y/n gets back’ btw ^^

@yourysrname HAHAHAHAHHA SOFTY ASS

@dam0nsalvat0re @bonbonniee you literally had no business making that public information

@stefaNN18 Welcome back y/n!! We missed you!! 🥰💕

@yourusrname the mom energy your texting style radiates💀

@itsenzo ah heard a lot about you love, welcome home or whatever

@carebear you return my mugs to me or I SWEAR there will be consequences

@yourusrname I’ll see YOU in court

gilberelenaaaa for future reference: don’t ask y/n to watch the stove

@gilberelenaaaa not even for two seconds

@bonbonniie that is some serious witchcraft wow

@yourusrname sorry for trying to be helpful

@1tsenzo nice try! never try again 👍

@yourusrname you literally eat burnt toast for breakfast

@1tsenzo it’s called English brown bread toast

@yourusrname you’re so cheap you’d probably eat anything

@1tsenzo anything…? When you put it like that I can certainly think of a few things I’d be interested in eating

@yourusrname what happened to shame?

@carebear EW HES SO GROSS

@stefaNN18 is everyone alright? xx

@gilberelenaaaa yeah dw we have had a fire extinguisher on stand by

1tsenzo hate this woman’s guts

@yourusrname I call it divine intuition

@1tsenzo we spent half an hour trying to get out of the herd???????? and I have goat piss all over me????????

@yourusrname and? and?

@bonbonniiee CUTIE

@1tsenzo thanks

@yourusrname it was directed to me

@1tsenzo on MY post? Not everything is about you love

@bonbonniie it was directed to her though

@yourusrname HAHAHAHAHHA SEE

@dam0nsalvat0re where are you two???

@1tsenzo idk I was just giving y/l/n a ride

@dam0nsalvat0re why?

@1tsenzo because she asked me to…?

@stefaNN18 since when do YOU do things for other people that aren’t a felony in some way voluntarily???

yourusername Caroline tells you to get the dress? You get the dress.

@bonbonniiee amen

@dam0nsalvat0re even if it’s matching with your grandma

@yourusrname SHUT THE FUCK UP

@dam0nsalvat0re can’t unsee it can you?

@stefaNN18 do not listen to Damon he doesn’t know what he’s talking about polka dots are sooooo back again

@dam0nsalvat0re okay Miranda Priestly

@1tsenzo wow.

@carebear ABSOLUTELY STUNNING

1tsenzo dress like your girlfriend day

@carebear LMAOOOO WHAT

@carebear You?? Don’t?? Have?? A?? Girlfriend??

@1tsenzo yet

@gilbertelanaaaa does he think he’s pulled off dressing like y/n

@yourusrname ????????????????????????

@1tsenzo you’re just jealous I wear polka dot better than you

@gilbertelenaaaa it’s so difficult to tell if he’s flirting with y/n or fighting with her

@1tsenzo a secret third thing

@yourusrname he’s being a bitch

@stefaNN18 delete

@dam0nsalvat0re have you by chance ever heard the term self respect?

@1tsenzo I couldn’t care less mate she is SO lovely I really don’t think much about much

@dam0nsalvat0re can y/n just go out with him at this point I feel nauseous

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If people want I could do more parts of this (I am dying to) let me know if you’d like to be tagged and thanks you for the request!!!!!!!

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starlightandfairies · 1 year ago

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Hiiii I hope you don’t mind me requesting again! I love the one you did for me! It made me incredibly happy.

May I request a Lorenzo St. John x female reader? This time I was thinking of a lot of fluff and hurt/comfort? If that’s okay of course. Again, human reader please. This time reader is very stubborn and always acts tough. She dislikes supernaturals a lot. She’s friends with Elena and her group.

One day reader gets kidnapped and threatened by an enemy vampire if the Salvatore’s. The brothers save her, but once she gets home she starts to panic and cry because she’s had enough and doesn’t know if she can take anymore of the supernatural drama. But Enzo stops by her house to ask for a favor and the reader acts like she’s fine but it’s obvious she’s been crying and he tries to comfort her, despite her not liking him much.

Ahhh sorry this is long again! I just have so many ideas….um ignore this if it’s too much. I hope you have a wonderful full day and night!!

Description: The reader is kidnapped by an old enemy of the Salvatores and as tries to pretend that everything is okay but fails at doing so.

Warnings: she/her pronouns, fluff, swearing

*Requests are open, please send through as many requests as you want, check my character list and requesting rules.*

I honestly got so excited when you requested Enzo! Thank you for requesting again and yay! I'm so happy the other one made you happy. I'm glad! I'm honestly not happy about how this one turned out but I hope you still enjoy it regardless.

Key: Y/N = Your Name, L/N = Last name, POV = Point of view

Word Count: 1,358

First Person's POV

Once I turned 18 I promised I would leave Mystic Falls for good. This town is a goddamn beacon for chaos and danger. I wouldn't even be surprised if a hole to the end of the world opened right in the centre of town. One thing I hated more than maths was the supernatural beings that thought the world revolved around them. Of course, I loved Caroline, Bonnie and Elena. I tolerated Stefan and Damon but the others... the others it depended on who they were and what they've done. I tried my best to stay away from the chaos that the group got themselves into, sometimes it was relatively easy and other times it was damn hard.

Every day I make a bet with myself about if it's gonna be an easy day or a damn hard day. I made a bet that it'll be a damn hard day. I don't know what gave me that feeling, it was just that uneasy feeling when I woke up this morning and considering that the Salvatores had been kidnapped and beaten the last few days, I just assumed that the streak of unpleasantness would continue.

Heading towards the town square, I stood, waiting for the girls to show up, putting myself on edge due to the sudden paranoia that someone would be out to get me.

I don't know how it happened, or when it happened but I woke up, tied up and sitting on a mattress laid across the ground. I refused to cry, I would not let myself be seen as weak and give whatever asshole decided to use me as fish bait.

"Y/n... Y/n... Y/n..." I stared angrily at the figure, recognising the person as a Traveller, I rolled my eyes and stared at the figure flabbergasted as he slapped me.

"I need the Salvatores to come here, I see them with you, so here we are," I grunted through the rag, groaning as he pulled it from my mouth and went to speak but was literally hushed by the twit. He put his damn finger on my lips with a tut to silence me.

"Listen here... I don't care about how you want to run your damn mouth, I don't have the time, all I care about is bringing the Salvatores here and following the plan."

"And that would be?"

"Noneya."

"Oh, how mature," I muttered, hissing in pain as his fist collided with my face, I took another breath and smiled at the man showing that I didn't care and that it didn't faze me at all. I grunted as he shoved the rag back in and proceeded to pace the room. I couldn't help but flinch as the door slammed open and within the blink of an eye the Salvatores easily dealt with the guy and the adrenaline seemed to take away my thought processing and I ended up back home without really realising it.

I took a shower, got into my pyjamas, plopped down on the couch and that's when it all came out. I could feel my hands begin to shake, a tightness in my chest formed that made it hard to breathe. The tears came cascading down, the whole room seemed to spin and I couldn't stop my sobs from escaping. I do not want to go through that again, I do not want to be kidnapped and hurt. I can't go through that, this is all too much, maybe I should just move away? Get away from the town of death and suffering.

I couldn't tell you how long I had been crying for, I couldn't even tell you how the panic attack stopped or if it even stopped. I was sitting in a pool of tissues, I had already nearly gone through an entire box, I don't think I've cried this much before, I can't think of a time when the pain has been this bad.

I jumped hearing a knock on my door, I quickly and roughly rubbed my eyes doing my best to make the tears go away and hope that whoever it was wouldn't need anything from me. I forced a smile to my lips as I opened the door, surprised to see the lovely Enzo there, he was a vampire I liked and I will admit there are times when I prefer him over the Salvatores but also just like most of the supernatural my tolerance normally ran low.

"Enzo- hi."

"Hello, gorgeous... listen I need a favour-" The vampire cut himself off, he glanced around to the living area and then back at me. I did my best to keep smiling, not wanting to let my guard down.

"Gorgeous, what's going on?"

"I'm fine Enzo, listen I've got a busy day tomorrow and as much as I'm sure the favour cannot wait I cannot help you today." I tried closing the door on him, groaning as he easily stopped it and slipped into my home. I bit the inside of my cheek, finding it harder and harder to continue pretending that I was okay.

"You've been crying..."

"N-no I haven't. I said I am fine." I tried to make my words more pointed, hoping he'll truly believe that I was 'fine' but Enzo is smart and it was clear that my bullshit lies weren't enough to convince him.

"Talk to me, please." I wrapped my arms around myself, shaking my head, the tears inevitably coming, I could feel my lips quivering and my body shake as the sobs escaped my lips. I could feel Enzo leading me to the couch, he brushed away the tissues and sat beside me.

"Y/n... what's going on? What happened."

"I- one of the travellers took me and used me as bait to draw in the Salvatores... I can't deal with the supernatural any longer... I don't want to go through that again. This- this anxiety, I can't... I won't go through that again. I'm so scared Enzo, I can't keep pretending that I'm fine because everyone looks to me because they think I'm tough but the truth is-" I let out a sob that would prevent me from going on any further without struggling to voice my concerns. I shook my head, angry with myself for blubbering in front of Enzo.

I felt him wrap an arm around me, he lightly rubbed my shoulder, against all my wishes, I let myself curl against him. At that moment I didn't care about who was comforting me, all I cared about was seeking someone who would offer me the comfort I clearly needed.

"I can make it easier for you- I can... if you're comfortable, I can compel you... I can make it go away." I considered, that maybe it would make it easier to just disappear... make it easier to get away from all of this. I was about to allow him to do that but then I thought of Bonnie and Caroline and Elena... I couldn't do that to them.

"N-no, no. Thank you."

"If you ever change your mind... I know we aren't close, I think you don't like me at all but I'll make it go away. If you ever want." I took a few deep breaths, nodding and appreciating that Enzo would do this for me even after knowing that I wasn't his biggest fan.

"I don't not not like you but- it's not important right now."

"You know, you know gorgeous... I still think you are pretty tough, you know it's okay to cry and it's okay be worired." It felt reassuring to know that, I never wanted to let anyone down and I wanted them to know that I am strong and I am tough. That these things won't bother me or effect me.

"Means a lot to me."

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noobiestnoober · 27 days ago

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🧛‍♂️ The Vampire Diaries Master List

✨ Reblog = support the writer! 💌 Requests Open! #fyp #fandomwriters

Damon Salvatore

A Complicated Love – PART 1 | PART 2

The Cost of a Prank

Plan F: Fabulous or Failure?

A Dangerous Game – 🔥 Smut

Kai Parker

Shadows of Destiny – PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3

Shattered Reflections

Pretty Little Monster

Stefan Salvatore

Veil of Deception

Lorenzo St. John (Enzo)

Whiskey & Secrets

🌀 TVD Group & Chaos One-Shots

Prison World IKEA: Assembling Chaos – (Damon, Bonnie, Kai, Reader)

Blood Ties and Petty Fights – (Damon, Stefan, Reader)

Prank Wars – Mystic Falls Edition – (Reader, Damon, Stefan, Kol)

Truth or Dare Gone Wrong – PART 1 | PART 2 | (Mystic Falls Gang & Reader+Mikaelsons)

Cooking Disaster at the Boarding House – (Reader, Stefan, Damon, Enzo)

Road Trip from Hell – (Reader, Damon, Caroline, Klaus)

Vampire Training Gone Wrong – (Reader, Damon, Stefan, Alaric)

Mystic Falls' First Karaoke Night

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splatooshy · 1 year ago

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tvdu headcanons

yes these are completely correct, no i do not take criticism. either compliment me and my clever thoughts or walk away.

damon

- pretends his initials stand for ‘damon fucking salvatore.’

- Humanity isn’t something Damon lacks. He ignores it sometimes, but he did that when he was human too

- shy. so PAINFULLY shy. that didn’t change until post 70s.

- fav colour is jade green.

- born in italy, then lily had multiple miscarriages over 5 years and giuseppe decided they would move to america for better prospects, and stefan was born in mf.

- giuseppe despised anything ‘foreign’, and would lock damon in the cellar when he slipped up. never mind that damon didn’t really know any english.

- named his first horse (a shetland pony) sir handsome. loved his horses. hated people, loved animals.

- bibliophile. brains over brawn.

- gets banned from new orleans every few decades. marcel HATES him. also was in nola in 1914, freya and kol both took pity on him/ befriended damon after he managed to piss off the witches AND marcel in one day.

- always had the most inconvenient crushes as a human. the first was the daughter of some middle class storekeeper when he was eight. the second was emily bennett (his secret bff) and the third was a dude with a horse when he was a teenager. stablehand/riding instructor/ young gent passing through, named sebastian. giuseppe caught the boys fooling around one day and promptly shot sebastian in the head, before beating damon within an inch of his life (WOAH I WROTE THIS SO CASUALLY). damon never fully recovered.

- finds grimoires to bring to his favourite witch at the time. often the spells are super wacky and mostly useless.

- chatty and clingy drunk.

- after augustines, physically cant sleep alone, and half the time wakes up only to realise he’s killed his bedpartner (strangling, decap., suffocation etc.)

- in the 30s, he became a professional dancer.

stefan

- fav colour is an icy, glacial blue.

- nobody knows what his first language is. His first few words were either Italian or French, but it’s not certain which one. of course, giuseppe locked damon in the cellar for that.

- first horse was sir handsome, a hand-me-down from damon. loved both people and animals, but most of all loved when damon was introducing him to the animals.

- actually the cutest little child ever. big green eyes and floppy blonde-ish hair. looked like a five-year-old until he was 13? 14? and then suddenly shot up really quick.

- bull in a china shop. brawn over brains.

- the ‘ripper’ was created by lexi. she isolated and abused stefan, manipulating him into whatever she wanted.

- chronic migraine sufferer.

- as a human, he physically could not eat when nervous, which just so happened to be 80% of the time.

- rarely gets drunk but is a very outgoing and slutty drunk.

- lizard brain blood lusty ripper stefan only speaks italian.

- model aeroplane / train / car kind of guy.

- tumbled down into a well twice as a human.

- built the engine for the first automobile, passed it onto henry ford.

enzo

- likes the challenge of getting his way without resorting to compulsion (which is cheating.)

- has the stickiest fingers. he didn’t become a little street urchin in london without picking up some skills.

- turned by jack the ripper in 1888. approached him mid-murder.

- physically incapable of hating damon. and believe me, he’s tried.

- after augustines, physically cant sleep alone, and half the time wakes up only to realise he’s killed his bedpartner (strangling, decap., suffocation etc.)

klaus

- went to college a few times to study art. ended up stabbing the teacher [with a paintbrush] because they critiqued his work.

- was tsar nicholas 2 as a joke, purposely ended the dynasty.

elijah

- slipped ecstasy into klaus’ drink in the 80s just to see what would happen.

rebekah

- had a habit of accidentally wandering as a kid.

- clairvoyant / clairsentient.

- very partial to throwing knives.

kol

- bffs with charles 2, gets knighted (inspired by that episode of parks and rec where ben and andy meet the rich british guy)

- refers to stefan as klaus’ estranged paramour

- mixes vervain and wolfsbane into joints and such to get klaus to chill the fuck out. and mixing vervain into other drugs and stuff so that they’d affect him - damon joins the operation in 1914.

- was jack the ripper in 1888, saw a man drowning in his own blood in an alleyway, just watching as kol disemboweled a prostitute, before approaching him like ‘please sir, can you spare any change?’ and kol was delighted.

- damon pissed off marcel in 1914 and kol decided at that moment they were best friends.

- BIG fan of the ottoman empire. it only collapsed because kol was daggered.

- has grimoires full of odd spells.

alaric

- owns vervain coated knuckle dusters

- basically begs damon to talk history with him.

elena

- pre-accident: queen bee and she knew it. at her core, she is self-centred and used to getting her way. this only changes with her parents’ accident, but eventually elena reverts back into her old self.

- refers to katherine as her identical grandmother

[ - bitchy stares. not even an rbf, her face is just super expressive and you can tell when she’s judging you ]

caroline

- was second to elena all her life, and elena knew how to fuel that envy of caroline’s. but then elena’s parents died and caroline was finally #1, except stefan shows up and it’s back to the elena show again.

[ - well-meaning but tone deaf ]

both elena and caroline are just those bitchy popular girls.

[ bonnie ]

[ i have so many for her but a lot are completely against canon so here’s the ones that could be ]

[ - best cheerleader on the squad // the older girls adopted her as their flyer from day 1 ]

[ - because she’s tiny, yanno? ]

[ - known as the ‘i dunno her but she seems nice’ one, the ‘quiet, seems really sweet but i think she hates me’ one and ‘elena’s minion’ ]

[ - but she’s actually more popular overall ‘cause she does all the volunteering / xtra curricular stuff with caroline and she’s not in your face about it ]

[ - has very weirdly specific daily rituals as to what she eats and when on which day (waffle wednesday), what pyjamas she wears, how her pillows are arranged, etc. ]

[ - she didn’t even notice she did all of that until she was at a sleepover and the other kid’s mum made a different breakfast to what she would usually have on that day and bonnie was like ‘hmm. i seem to be uncomfortable with this. why is that?’ but sucked it up and ate her breakfast without saying anything ]

#tvd #damon salvatore #denzo #elijah mikaelson #tvd fanfiction #bi damon salvatore #elena gilbert #stefan salvatore #caroline forbes #klaus mikaelson #enzo st. john #kol mikaelson #rebekah mikaelson #headcanon

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misspermitted · 3 months ago

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I've been maladaptive daydreaming about Bonnie and Kai again so I throw one of my AUs to you, ravenous hoards.

Bonkai but it’s Tom and Jerry

Crack AU where Kai isn't stabbed and left in the 1903 prison world but that sure isn't for lack of trying. Bonnie fails to stab him because either:

Elena has a badly timed self righteous moment and stops Bonnie because "we have to be better!" Bonnie, who is on thin emotional ice, snaps at Elena about double standards, which is totally not about any other issues in their friendship or anything. Bonus points if Elena is like "This isn't like you, why does Kai get under your skin so much?" And Kai is like, low key smug about it ("See Bonster, you're being the unreasonable one ;)" Bonnie is gonna set something on fire. Maybe herself)

He literally just knocks her out with magic. Bonnie forgetting she has magic and doesn't need to wrestle someone with a knife, makes sense. Kai? Who just became a coven leader and is brimming with magic? Absolutely not. After knocking her out he brings her back from the prison world because he honestly gets the eye for an eye, stab for a stab thing. That was like, his entire moral compass before the merge. Is he a little mad? Yes. But also, it was fair. Bonus points if Kai actually lets Bonnie stab him before he knocks her out like "Now we're even we can be friends :)" (they can't)

They get back and Kai is very mad at Damon and Jo for agreeing to the plan. Bonnie though, who literally just tried to kill him? He's totally cool with her. Because Kai is frustrated that people won't trust him or forgive him because he doesn't know why they won't. He doesn't understand heartbreak or trauma or loss, and why that would stop people from forgiving him. But like, the second Bonnie says "It doesn't feel very good to be stabbed in the back does it?" all of her shit makes complete sense to him. That is like, exactly what Kai said to his father when he was choking him to death. Its vengeance and a grudge. Completely reasonable. Once she gets over it she'll forgive him and they can be friends :)

Bonnie, meanwhile, wants him dead. She can't sleep. She can't eat. He has to die. Bonnie is totally fine, completely understands that her friends needed to move on and her boyfriend needed to sleep with everything and she is legally dead so can't actually go to college anymore because how do you even reverse that decision and she has to sell her fathers empty house and its all totally cool. She's not mad. Kai is the problem. The only thing she is mad about is Kai. The only thing wrong with her life right now is Kai being alive.

So Kai is trying to get revenge on Damon and Jo for betraying him and Bonnie is following him around with a fucking gun like: "just DIE." But he keeps avoiding all her murder plots while going "Hi Bon! Nice to see you. You look lovely in that coat by the way :) Same time next week?" And she is livid. He doesn't even try and kill her back! Does he not think she's a threat?! She's killed an original vampire and collapsed the veil between the living and the dead she is NOT USELESS. Bonus points that Bonnie is ranting about how she is not useless to Liv who's just like, "Girl, I fucking know. How does he escape all our murder attempts." Because I want Bonnie to get witchy friends and Liv and Bonnie absolutely match eachothers freak of:

Eventually, Kai manages to get a chance to kill Jo and avenge himself. Primarily because Bonnie is distracted by Damon's heretic drama and doesn't get in the way. (Because she might not be able to kill him, but she sure does inconvenience him. It's not like Bonnie's not incredibly competent, Kai is just very good at avoiding death.) But when he has Jo in front of him, he still can't bring himself to kill her. Or even maim her.

He also comes to the dawning realisation that if he kills Damon (which he has no emotional drawbacks doing) Bonnie won't want to be his friend. And that's one of Kai's main goals, and Kai may have emotions now like frustration and anger, but he's still incredibly goal orientated *cough cough* loses his shit because he won't achieve goal of being coven leader *cough cough*

Why does he want Bonnie to be his friend? Well why wouldn't he? Have you met her? I mean:

She's fun, he's been having a great time trying to outsmart her. Wait, you think he's mad that she's been thwarting his revenge plans? He spent 20 years being able to do whatever he wanted without resistance and let me tell you it got boring fast. And now he's coven leader so everyone kinda just does what he says, and honestly it sucks. And since he got these emotion things he's really needed to keep himself occupied because otherwise they feel terrible, and he's already figured out all the Gemini's interesting witchy woo secret spells, so trying to outthink Bonnie has been a really fun use of his time.

Bonnie is the first person he ever saw actually forgive a monster (Damon). Like, repeatedly. Seriously, he thought forgiveness was just lip service before watching that happen. And she's smart and observant and he googled his symptoms, and according to google he admires her. So if she can decide to forgive him, and actually ends up liking him, it would be fantastic confirmation that he is a different person now :)

The books say to be a good person you have to make connections with people you like, and she's funny and pretty and he enjoys it. Originally he thought that was just him seeing a girl for the first time in twenty years and getting excited, but no he definitely enjoys Bonnie way more than most people.

Drawback: she's still like, super mad at him. And he googled it (the internet is so useful) and apparently people who are mad at you need space (didn't help him but hey, he didn't have emotions before). And he can't get revenge on Jo or Damon anymore. And honestly the heretic business is starting to get on his nerves. So he just leaves.

Bonnie is furious because she needs to kill him and now he's just gone? But I have to kill him! What do you mean he's not a problem anymore? What are you talking about of course he is- no Caroline I'm not being unreasonable I need him dead and he just leaves why does he keep LEAVING- (Bonnie has a lot of issues. Even Liv is like "chill." Bonnie does not, in fact, chill. She's totally not also been using her plots to kill Kai as a way to avoid her emotions. Because her and Kai aren't similar at all.)

And now, for the rest of the show, Bonnie keeps randomly disappearing for episodes on end because she's on yet another roadtrip to kill Kai. He keeps escaping her plots. It's hilarious. This is great for a few reasons:

1) Solves the "Bonnie is OP" plot problem

While a majority of the reason Julie Plec wanted to write Bonnie out was because of racism, Bonnie does also pose a bit of a writer problem. Essentially, there is a point in TVD where Bonnie gets like, so much more powerful than everyone other protagonist. But TVD can't actually scale up their villains to match her because everyone else would literally just die or be useless. So whenever TVD wants to do a plot with stakes they've got the good old LOTR "Why didn't the eagles just fly them to Mordor" problem. Why can't Bonnie fix this immediately? And so we get the "Bonnie loses her powers" which, fun the first two times, a bit old the third, and fucking infuriating the fifteenth time. Then we have the "Bonnie, usually hyper competent, acts uncharacteristically dumb" which is somehow even worse. Or "the camera hasn't panned to Bonnie in this scene even though she's definitely there, and would definitely be doing something right now. One can assume she's just staring at a wall?"

This fixes that problem! Whenever the writer's need Bonnie gone for a plot to have stakes they can just send her on a Kai hunt. People are like, "Oh no this evil vampire has come back Bonnie can you- Bonnie? Bonnie where are you going?" "I just got a lead on Kai I gotta go." "Bonnie we're literally about to be attacked by a vampire can this wait?" "I'll just be a second." "Bonnie wait get out of the car-" "Call me if you need me." "We will need you to do a sp-aaand she's gone."

Another bonus of this AU is Damon is annoyed as hell about this. Totally not jealous that she keeps disappearing on him even when he asks her to stay to go chase Kai. (This is all part of my evil plan for Bonnie's angry obsession with Kai to actually be helping her establish boundaries)

She comes back after ten episodes and Caroline's all slightly amused "So is he dead?" And Bonnie's like "Don't talk to me." She also smells a lot like roses for some reason? (Eventually Caroline asks and apparently Bonnie woke up surrounded by 555 yellow roses because she "looks good in yellow." Caroline thinks Bonnie's exaggerating. She is not.)

My headcanon btw is that Caroline is our first shipper. Or at least, realises there's more to Bonnie's obsession with murdering Kai. I mean, every time Bonnie comes back from a Kai hunt shes actually calmer and happier then she was before, despite it being a fail. Caroline actually thinks it might be weirdly healthy for her.

2) Bonnie gets to actually be a witch!

Don't you love how Bonnie has the whole expression arc where she realises she has to connect with the spirits and nature to be a good and happy witch, and then they never have her doing that? Don't you love how Bonnie's entire story could've been about self acceptance because she was raised separated from communities including her grandmother who could understand her, repeatedly told she wasn't different and taught to act like something she's not by her father who was ashamed of and hated her background? And her finally having a good relationship with the spirits and her ancestors could've been a way of accepting herself and who she is? But instead they kept taking away her powers, having her never interact with other witches, and tried to fix it with a romance that they also ruined immediately? Because I sure don't.

This way, Bonnie can travel the world! While she's hunting Kai! She can talk to other covens (because he'll probably be pissing them off, lets be honest). She'll be working on her magic consistently in order to overpower him, and learning more about magic in order to counter his.

Bonus points for Bonnie accidentally becoming friends with most of the Gemini coven. Because she keeps running into them trying to kill Kai and they're all fucked up enough to match her insanity. Liv is the beginning of this trend but Bonnie eventually ends up like, becoming roommates with an actual Gemini siphon and Kai is sulking in the corner like "Why does she want to be friends with that siphon and not me..." (buddy, you being a siphon is not the problem)

Gemini coven meeting and Sandra is like "Oh I had coffee with Bonnie the other day!"

And then fucking Gerald on the opposite side of the table perks up: "Ooo I haven't seen her in forever, how was she?"

"Good, she doesn't like the new Iron Man though which is crazy."

Over on the other side Beatrice is like: "It's true we went to see that together last week."

And Kai's like, "So do you think she wants to join-" And is immediately no'd. Bonnie does not want to join the Gemini coven. She will never want to join the Gemini coven. Stop asking.

And then he goes home and curls up with a tub of icecream and some pork rinds like "I wanna see movies with Bonnie :(" Before purposefully doing something to blow his cover so she tracks him down again.

3) The pure fucking comedy potential

Seriously no dynamic has ever been this funny. The Tom and Jerry dynamic has no equal. Kai lures Bonnie to an abandoned apartment building. There are rumours he's doing blood magic. She enters. It is a decked out movie theatre with couches and string lights. He offers her popcorn. They're watching Bladerunner now?

She poisons his drink and when he drinks it she goes "So much for the all knowing Gemini coven leader! That was poison." And he's just like "Oh I know :)" "You... know?" "Yeah but I didn't wanna be rude. This is the first thing you've made me you know? I have the antidote here. Amazing poison by the way its really well made, could barely taste it." Bonnie is losing her mind.

4) Bonnie is more than a solver of problems

Bonnie gets her own goals she's plotting towards, rather than constantly always helping Damon or Elena or Caroline with their things. Like, the reason Bonnie's obsession with Kai is actually kind of healthy for her is that she sets boundaries about it. If anyone ,even her friends, try to stop her she absolutely snaps at them. No she will not relinquish her grudge against Kai for you, she will not relinquish it until he's dead.

She gets entire plot points where she isn't being constantly overshadowed by all the other characters. And, just to absolutely disclaimer, Kai is not superior to Bonnie in this AU. He's not getting out of her attempts on his life because he's outsmarting her every single time. He is just supernaturally good at not dying. There are times when she wins and he narrowly escapes.

They're fairly evenly matched which is why Kai (and totally not also Bonnie) enjoy it. They're pulling a whole Sherlock Holmes esq "he knows that I know that he knows-" for every murder plot and literally no one else can follow it.

Though you'd think eventually Kai would get unlucky and die by Bonnie's hand, no matter how slippery he is. Except, shockingly, as this goes on Bonnie's murder plots get more and more convoluted, and you could swear there have been some moments where she could've killed him, but didn't. How bizarre...

5) Doesn't rule out BonEnzo at all

The thing about this AU is that, how I see it, it is a very very slow burn. They might not even end up in a "relationship" relationship at the end. Like Bonnie is slow burning into having a friendship that isn't transactional, she doesn't have to earn affection, people can just actually like her. Even when she's being actually insane. And Kai is slow burning realising he hasn't become an entirely different person, but that's kind of okay because Bonnie still likes him somehow so maybe you don't need to be someone's monster just because you're not their perfect son/brother/friend. Maybe there is a middle ground. Anything more than this slow burn is a bonus.

Also for me this friendship slow burn needs to happen before anything else. We're not just randomly having a sex scene. It doesn't make sense for the characters. Are they both attracted to eachother? Yes. But Bonnie is not emotionally impulsive enough to just sleep with someone because she's attracted to them, she's been fucked over too many times. And Kai's number one priority is being friends with Bonnie so he really doesn't want to make her madder at him than she already is, and apparently sleeping with a woman is a whole thing and can make them mad at you. So he will not be doing that.

In this sense, Bonnie can one hundred percent have a relationship with Enzo without it causing any issues. In fact, I can 100% see the dynamic being:

Bonnie: (◡‿◡🌸)

Bonnie: (ʘ‿ʘ🌸) Kai is in Virginia

Bonnie: (ʘ‿ʘ)ノ🌸 Enzo hold my flower

Enzo: 🌸＼(｡^_^｡) A roadtrip? Lovely. Kick his ass baby I got your flower

I know, "but wouldn't Kai get jealous?" I don't know he seemed pretty keen to help out Jeremy and chat with him about how much Jeremy loves Bonnie. Really I feel like BonEnzo plus Kai in this crack world would essentially boil down to:

After Bonnie tries to kill Kai they regularly just, have a debrief session, where both Enzo and Kai talk about how ingenious Bonnie's shield spell was! Absolutely, you know she found that spell in some ancient witch book that no one could translate and then translated it in three days?

Kai: No kidding? And she used it on me :D

Enzo: Isn't she just terrifyingly powerful?

Kai: Yep. Hot.

Enzo: I could not agree more.

Bonnie, who just woke up tied to a couch with a glass of whiskey and a gourmet meal in front of her: Enzo is now really the time

"Wouldn't Enzo get jealous?" No because he's secure in his relationship with Bonnie, next question.

(Bamon could also work with this too I guess. A different dynamic because he 100% would get jealous and I mean, I don't like the ship so I'm not gonna put it in my headcanon, but you could do it)

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ak-rye-47 · 2 months ago

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@crossedsabers10s

"Damon and Enzo + friends to fiancés speedrun? Plsssss 🥺"

Here it is my luv!!!

Fanfiction: The Vampire Diaries

Relationship : Damon Salvatore/Lorenzo st John

Title : " To be Your Forever"

Ao3 link : https://archiveofourown.org/works/64334557

@writingsoftheunderworld @fieldsofwax @minalblood @randomshipping101 @drinkingblueglitter @emberandshadow @alltid-og-for-evig @enzostjohn

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storywriter12 · 9 months ago

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Would anyone be interested in reading a bonnie and Enzo story? Because I, might or will do one

#fanfic #wattpad #writing ideas #love story #A vampire and witch #the vampire diaries #tvd fanfiction #bonnie bennett #enzo st. john #bonnie x enzo #tvd #cute story #marriage #damon salvatore #stefan salvatore #caroline forbes

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thelazuliknight · 1 month ago

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Laz’s TVDU headcanons 4

Lexi, Nadia, and Enzo all have unknown sire lines.

Honestly Lexi and Nadia are goldmines for creative storylines and stuff. Because there is so little known about them.

Don’t really care about heretic plot line or the Reyna Cruz plot line, but they do at least inform us of this:

But Enzo and the heretics are all the same bloodline, turned by Lily. Obviously she isn’t in Kol or Finn’s sireline. But in the Originals we see that the entirety of Klaus’s sireline had a strange pseudo-desiccation when it the sireline was broken. And this was happening during the heretic conflict, Reyna cruise thing, and I think that they would have probably assumed it was an attack on them from the mystic falls gang if it happened. And it wasn’t. And it would have (if the writers were paying attention but because they weren’t) and thus it makes me think they were not under Klaus’s sire line, thus either Rebekah or Elijah.

But Valerie didn’t die. She left iirc correctly (it’s been a hot minute since I watched the later seasons of the show), which means I believe that whomever turned Lily was of Rebekah’s sireline. Which means Enzo is of Rebekah’s sireline.

Lexi could be anyone, sadly. But I headcanon it was Nadia who turned her. Give us a full circle moment. And it’s hard to say who turned Nadia, but obviously not Kol or Finn sireline. I almost want to give Elijah credit here, just to have some Elijah sirelines action.

Doing this less for heretic headcanons, but just to share whom I think Lexi and Enzo are sired to. And also Nadia who I actually find really interesting, and I am mad at the writers for handling her the way they did.

#tvdu #the vampire diaries #the vampire diaries headcanons #the mikaelsons #the originals #rebekah mikaelson #elijah mikaelson #Nadia Petrova #lexi branson #enzo st. john #Valerie Tulle #what a strange character listing #tvdu headcanons #tvdu fanfiction #vampire sirelines #Laz’s tvdu headcanons

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rosedforbes · 1 year ago

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❝ Rebekah (7:46 PM): What are you doing on Friday?

There are several ways to answer that question. Caroline, egged on by the tiny devil on her shoulder, chooses the most obnoxious one.

Caroline (7:47 PM): Your brother, hopefully.

Rebekah, predictably, does not react well. Caroline presses her lips together, her shoulders shaking with quiet giggles as she watches the rapid string of replies.

Rebekah (7:47 PM): VILE.

Rebekah (7:47 PM): AND JUVENILE.

Rebekah (7:47 PM): I LOATHE YOU. ❞

COLORED YOU IN ; AO3

#PIQ #klaroline #klaroline fanfiction #klaus mikaelson #caroline forbes #rebekah mikaelson #kol mikaelson #elijah mikaelson #enzo st john #bonnie bennett #marcel gerard #davina claire #the vampire diaries #the originals #ao3

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saiilorstars · 1 month ago

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Chapter 6: "12144"

TVD || Enzo x OFC Story Masterlist | Rosalie’s Masterlist Also on: Fanfic • Ao3 • Wattpad Taglist: @ocappreciationtag@arrthurpendragon @transformerfan97 @stareyedplanet @foxesandmagic@kmc1989 @caplanbuckybarnes

Rosalie stumbled into the boarding house giggling girlishly. She had an oversized jacket on and was holding a bright pink smoothie in her hand. Her giggle was cut short when she bumped into Katherine who was on her way out. Katherine didn't think twice and shoved the girl to the side and went on her way without so much of a word.

"Good morning to you too!" Rosalie called after her, hiccuping and turning around. "Oh!" She was alarmed with the sight of a bloodied and disheveled Damon across her. "What the hell happened to you?"

Damon looked like he was shuddering and truthfully like he had been in the pits of hell. "Where the hell are you coming from?" He grunted at her.

"Hm? Oh! Caroline, Bonnie and I had an impromptu sleepover at Caroline's house! Her mom, by the way, is the sweetest!" Rosalie chuckled and sipped her smoothie. "She's a cop! The sheriff! I love that women today get to hold jobs like that! A sheriff!" She laughed all over again.

Damon's nose crinkled. "You're not drunk—"

Rosalie agreed with him and raised her smoothie to make the point. "Totally not!"

"—which means you're just naturally like this…" Damon thought it might actually be worse than having her be drunk.

Rosalie deadpanned him for his words. "Anyways, I stayed at Caroline's and I didn't have any clothes because I still need to shop so she let me borrow some of hers and while the dress is fine, I don't think this jacket was hers because it looks way too big for her!"

"Yeah, okay, cool it now," Damon raised a hand to stop her before she talked his ears off. "We need to switch gears. How are you at locator spells?" He turned to head up the stairs.

"Locator spells?" Rosalie repeated, her excitement slowly waning. "Why…why would you need that from me?" She hurried to catch up with him upstairs.

"Trouble!" was all Damon said until he strode into Stefan's room. The latter was in the middle of putting some clothes away.

"Where the hell have you been?" Stefan said the moment he felt Damon's presence.

"Yeah, and why are you all bloody?" Rosalie said with a crinkled nose.

"Aw, you know, being held against my will, shot in the head, now I can't find Elena," said Damon dismissively, "How was your evening? Anything out of the ordinary happen?"

"Wait a minute, what do you mean you can't find Elena?" Stefan said, tossing a jacket on his bed. Behind Damon, Rosalie was questioning the same thing.

"I mean, she's not picking up her phone, she's not in her dorm, she's nowhere in this house, which leads me to believe that Dr. Creepy Ken-doll has her somewhere," Damon said, once again leaving his audience very confused.

"What's a Ken-doll?" Rosalie tilted her head.

"Are you talking about the Whitmore bio teacher?" asked Stefan.

"Yeah, the one that operated on vampires during business hours, yeah, that one. Put your hero hair on, Stefan. Let's go get Elena!" Damon rounded on Rosalie abruptly and once again asked for the locator spell.

"I-I don't…I can't do one, Damon," she said just as he had started towards the door for one of Elena's things.

"Excuse me?" He looked back at her in disbelief.

Say something quick before he snaps your head off! Rosalie gulped. "I'm…I'm rusty at that stuff…"

"Rusty?" Damon said incredulously and exchanged glances with his brother. Even Stefan found the excuse rather strange. "Hear that Stefan, we got stuck with the rusty witch. I'm sorry, weren't you the creator of the Other Side? This should be easy-peasy for you."

"I'm, uh, having some trouble alright?" Rosalie pursed her lips nervously.

Unlike Damon who immediately scoffed, Stefan walked over to the witch in concern. "Rose, is everything okay?"

Rosalie felt awful for lying, especially to Stefan who'd been the kindest to her out of everyone in the group. She just wasn't ready to tell them the little peculiar flaw with her magic. "I am," she promised, "it's just after Qetsiyah's death, I'm having a hard time, uh, using my magic. Rusty, you know?"

"Well, Rosie-kins, you better un-rustify yourself and figure it out because if my idea goes south, you will be performing a locator spell one way or another," Damon warned the witch and continued his way out of the room.

"Don't worry," Stefan told her as they went to follow Damon.

"I'll be more worried if we can't find Elena," she said. "Damon, any chance I could be caught up on this matter before you drag me into it? I don't mean to be a downer but I would like to remind you that I just came back to life."

"Sure," Damon flashed her a grin from downstairs, "on the ride there. Let's go!"

"Damon, you just said you don't know where Elena is," said Stefan, "Where are we going?"

"I don't know where Elena is, which means we're gonna have to find us some leverage since the only witch with magic we know of" — Damon shot Rosalie an accusing glance — "is apparently unavailable. We'll be doing this the old fashion way so come on!"

~ 0 ~

Rosalie had not been to Whitmore College except for the evening of the costume party and even that had been a one-building kind of visit…and in the dark. Now here she was in broad daylight in the middle of a large campus filled with students. Everything seemed so much bigger!

Students were walking past them from both ends. There were others studying or relaxing on the lawn and at tables. Her favorite thing were the different clubs that day — sororities, sports, community helpers!

"Could you please not walk like a damn deer with those bigass eyes of yours?" Damon called from up ahead. Rosalie was walking a significant distance behind them, her dark eyes wide as her head flipped in every direction taking in the sights. "We're trying to be subtle here!"

Rosalie scoffed at him and picked up her pace. "You being subtle is something I would pay to see! It's just all new to me! Everything is brand new to me!"

"Yeah, we get it," Damon said and continued leading the way.

"I've never been to school—"

"We get it," Damon insisted.

Rosalie rolled her eyes and finally caught up to him and Stefan. "So you want to tell me why this great big school is filled with evil professors? Don't recall that being the norm…"

"Just the way the world works," Stefan said with a nonchalant shrug. "Or, I guess, how our world works. So stay close, please."

"I'm not a vampire," Rosalie reminded him.

"Exactly, so you're more expendable than we are," Damon smirked at her and picked up his pace.

Rosalie glared after him. "You know, Stefan, everyday I like your brother less and less."

Stefan nodded. "I know what you mean."

Damon led them into one of the dorm buildings and pointed out their target: a young man by the name of Aaron sitting on a couch with headphones on. He was so focused writing in his notebook that he never noticed Damon plopping down next to him until Damon ripped one of his earphones out.

"Pop quiz," Damon started ever so casually, "so your girlfriend's taken by a mad scientist. Now, do you: A, get a new girlfriend; B, call the police; or C, kill someone close to the mad scientist?"

Aaron was more than frightened and quickly got up to run, only as soon as he made the turn he crashed into Stefan.

"Sit," Stefan ordered him and Damon patted the empty spot on the couch for him to return.

"Wow, talk about a warm greeting," Rosalie mumbled as she came to sit on the couch chair. She sized up Aaron and wondered how the hell this guy could have possibly done to warrant such a hostile interaction.

"Zip it newbie," Damom said while death glaring at Aaron. "Where's Elena?"

"I-I have no idea where Wes took her," Aaron swore, still very much frightened.

"Well, they're not at his lab, so where else could he hide a vampire?" asked Stefan.

Aaron was frantic as he kept looking between the brothers then Rosalie. "I'm sorry. Am I supposed to know who you two are?"

"That's my brother Stefan," Damon was happy to introduce, "but I'd watch your tone with him because he's kind of in the midst of a psychotic break."

Rosalie snorted. "Seriously?"

"And that's Rosalie, we don't really know if we like her yet."

Once again, Rosalie deadpanned Damon.

"Alright, alright, enough with the jokes," Stefan reprimanded Damom but the latter scoffed.

"Oh, I was being dead serious, little brother. You don't think I know about you and Katherine?"

Rosalie's eyes widened. "Wait, what?"

Stefan barely contained his snap. "Oh, I see. You're jealous."

"More like disturbed," Damon corrected. "See?" He side-glanced Aaron. "He's off his rocker, he's losing his mind, teetering on the brink of insanity."

Aaron's mind was spinning with so much information but he settled on the one thing that was the most shocking to him at the moment. "How are you not dead? I shot you."

Damon grinned as he looked around before answering him. "Well, because you went for the head. You got to go for the heart." He smacked the back of Aaron's head. "Go for the heart next time. Now, where's Elena?"

"I have no idea! All that Wes told me was to go about my life as usual."

"And that didn't spark any kind of suspicion for you?" Rosalie raised an eyebrow. "You gave up your friend…willingly…and you never thought to ask where exactly you were sending her to? Yeah, you're not sounding very smart right now…"

"The first thing you say that I can agree with, Rosie!" Damon pointed back at her then set his sights on Aaron again. "We're gonna call Wes, and you're gonna tell him that if he doesn't give us Elena the next experiment that he conducts it's gonna be sewing your arms back on," he lightly whacked Aaron's arm. "Get calling."

Aaron didn't have much of a choice but to comply. He took his cell phone out and dialed Wes, getting straight to the point as soon as the call was picked up. "Do you have Elena?"

Although he didn't put the call on speakerphone, Stefan and Damon heard perfectly. Rosalie, however, was left at a disadvantage trying to piece in the conversation.

"Uh, Stefan and Damon Salvatore are gonna kill me unless you give them Elena…" Aaron's gaze was glued on the seemingly calm Damon who was just waiting to fulfill his threat. "...or he's in front of me imagining what my kidney would taste like."

Rosalie grimaced.

Aaron ended the call a moment later. "He says to—"

"We heard," Damon stood up from the couch.

"Uh, hello, I didn't?" Rosalie said, following in suit. "Where are we going now?"

"To your first college class," Damon grinned dramatically, "Fair warning, you get docked points for being late so let's go. Oh, and only losers sit in the front row."

"What?" Rosalie turned to Stefan for help. She felt much more clueless than usual and she knew that Damon was getting a kick out of it.

"C'mon," Stefan motioned her to walk with him. "Ignore him."

"Trust me, I'm trying here!" Rosalie muttered. They headed back outside with Aaron leading the way to Wes' classroom.

"You want to give us a little backstory as to how you know one another?" Stefan asked his brother. The hostility between Damon and Aaron was just too much.

"Aaron is Aaron Whitmore, and he comes from a very long line of vampire-probing, blood-testing, organ-removing freaks called Augustine," Damon was happy to explain, throwing glares at Aaron as he spoke.

"And why do you know this?" Steve asked, finding it odd as it didn't sound like something Damon would ever be interested in. However, the answer he received shocked him even more.

"Because I was their test subject in the '50s."

"What do you mean test subject?"

"Meaning I donated my body to science except I was alive and it was against my will."

"Oh my god, you were experimented on?" Rosalie was horrified and for a second she almost forgave Damon for being such an ass. Almost. "Is that why you're such a jerk because they messed up your brain beyond belief?"

Damon rolled his eyes at her. "Funny. I might give you a point for that one."

"Hold on a minute," Stefan came to a slow stop in the middle of the sidewalk, "How do I not know about this?"

'Don't get all guilt-ridden, Stefan, on me. We were on the outs back then, and by the time it was over, you know, it was over…" Damon started to walk away, until Aaron called out to him.

"Why don't you finish the rest of the story, Damon?"

"I don't recall saying that you could talk," Stefan gave Aaron a sharp look, "Did I say that he could talk?"

Damon played along and shrugged. "I don't remember anything."

"I didn't think so."

Rosalie looked between the brothers and shook her head. "Now I can see how you two are related. And on some level, I'm relieved because I was beginning to wonder if one of you was actually adopted. Can we please just go to class now?"

"Okay, you know you're not actually going to a college class right?" Damon raised an eyebrow at her.

"I can pretend," Rosalie retorted. "And let's be honest, between you two's brooding and evil faces," she gestured between the brothers, "I'm probably the only one that can actually slip in undetected."

"With what magic?" sneered Damon who took off right after.

"Whatever it is, it's definitely more magic than you have, Damon!"

Stefan sighed wearily and grabbed Aaron's arm to follow after the two. Rosalie and Damon spent the whole walk to the classroom bickering.

"I'm starting to see why Caroline doesn't fully approve of you," Rosalie spat on their way in the hallway. "Because, oh yeah, she talked about you a lot last night!"

Instead of being offended like Rosalie had intended, Damon snorted. "So you spent your entire evening talking about me? I'm honored."

"Would you two just knock it off already?" Stefan reprimanded them from behind. "Which classroom is it already?" He asked from Aaron. The latter was walking right in front of them searching for the classroom number.

"This one," he stopped and pointed to a door ahead of them.

Rosalie was the closest and therefore reached it first.

"Ah!" Damon smacked her hand off the door handle. "What if it's a trap, dummy?"

Rosalie scoffed and made a gesture to the empty hallway. "I don't suppose there's another evil professor in there waiting for us?"

"It could be a trap," Damon reiterated, although Rosalie suspected it was only to go against her.

"Fine," she whacked his hand away and grabbed the door handle, "then I'll make sure to point out who the vampire in this group is. As far as anyone knows, Stefan here is human."

Damon did not care for her long smile and fought the urge to shove her when they walked into the classroom.

"Oh, evil professor, where are youu?" Rosalie sing-sung, and no longer could Damon control himself. He gave her a hard push to the side.

21051!" Someone called and made the group realize there was a man sitting in the back of the classroom.

"Holy crap, I didn't think that would work…" Rosalie whispered to Stefan behind her.

Damon was frozen in his spot when the man started coming down the steps towards them. "Enzo?"

Stefan noticed the odd way in which his brother had quieted down and lost his grip.

'Enzo' stopped in front of them, more precisely in front of Damon. "It's been a while, mate."

"And who the hell are you?" Stefan cut in since it didn't seem like Damon was going to talk anytime soon.

"Lorenzo, but my friends call me Enzo. Ah. Kidding…" Enzo's sights seemed stuck on Damon for the moment. "I don't have any friends." He offered his hand to Stefan to shake but the latter eyed him up and down, unimpressed.

Rosalie looked at all of them and wished she had stayed longer at the sleepover with Caroline and Bonnie. Anything had to be better than this. "Alright, at the risk of getting myself some fangs — like poor Aaron over there — how about we just play nice…?" She extended her hand towards Enzo and introduced herself. "Rosalie."

Enzo grinned and took her hand but instead of just shaking it, he brought her hand up to his lips and kissed it. "Pleasure to meet you."

Rosalie flushed and before she could say anything, Damon leaned over and yanked her hand down. "We don't talk to strangers, Rosie."

Rosalie forgot all about her flush and glared at him. "I talk to you, don't I?"

"Oh, we're strangers now?" Enzo scoffed and nearly laughed in Damon's face.

"Fine," Damon said with a dramatic long sigh, "Enzo's another Augustine vampire. Our cells were next to each other. So, we're here to meet somebody — Wes Maxfield. You know him?"

Enzo seemed even more incredulous than before. "That's your first question for me? Not 'How are you? How'd you survive in that fire I left you to die in?'"

"Uh, does somebody want to tell me what the hell is going on here?" Aaron said, swallowing hard with fear.

"I second that," Rosalie raised her finger.

"I'd love to," Enzo said, stepping back and gesturing towards the seats behind them, "Have a seat. Been waiting seventy years to tell my story."

"Yeah, you know what, we don't really have time for a story…" Damon trailed off as Enzo let out a short laugh.

"Yeah, I don't think he was asking…" Rosalie drew in a breath, "Well, this might be the closest I'll get to a real college class, so…" She was the first one to start towards the seats.

"Ah, really Rosie? You pick now to be obedient?" Damon went right behind her, especially when Stefan threw him a warning look; he recognized the look as a 'you better watch her'. "Where was this when I told you a dozen times to shut up on the drive here?"

"Must have ignored you, which I'm beginning to feel like I'll have to do many times in the future…" Rosalie plopped down on an empty chair in the front row. She noticed Stefan quietly slipping out of the room with Aaron's phone. Aaron was none the wiser.

Enzo hopped onto the professor's desk and cleaned his throat to signal that it was his turn now. "Damon was right. We were cell mates in 1953. We'd been locked in those cells for years, tortured, beaten, humiliated, but we weren't gonna let them break us, no. We decided if we were going to escape, we needed to work together." He paused for a moment just to truly glare at Damon. "We needed each other."

The classroom door opened again and Stefan came in. "Wes isn't sending her," he told the others.

"Tragic," said Enzo dismissively, "Can I continue my story now, please?"

"Doesn't he know we have Aaron?" Damon said, confused. Even Aaron beside him was a little confused given that his life was on the line.

"He doesn't care. He's willing to risk it."

"What?" Aaron rose from his chair, incredulous. "Let me talk to him! He'll listen to me."

"Uuh, guys…" Rosalie's quiet call when unnoticed. She could tell Enzo was getting irritated with them. He hopped off the desk and went straight to the chairs.

"What part of "he doesn't care" are you not registering?" Damon was arguing with Aaron when Enzo ripped off one of the classroom chairs from the floor and threw it out the window.

A heavy silence followed after that as everyone stared at Enzo who was now pleased with their focus. "Where were we? Uh, ah, right. I was telling my story, and you were all politely listening. Huh?" He started heading back to the front of the classroom. "So we came up with a plan to finally escape. I gave Damon my blood ration for a whole year, leaving myself a tiny bit just so that I wouldn't dessicate, so he'd have the strength to escape and save me in the process."

"A whole year of that?" Rosalie cut in, glancing at Damon behind her chair. "I'm surprised you were that patient. There was nothing else you could do to escape that hellhole?"

"Everything was made to keep vampires in," he responded, "Nothing got out."

"So how did you get out?"

"I can answer that," Enzo said, drawing their attention again, "Our plan began perfectly, didn't it?" He sent a sour smile in Damon's direction: the latter remained silent. "Every year, Augustine held a little get together with other Augustine friends and Dr. Whitmore got to show what he'd found in his research."

"That would be you guys?" Rosalie looked between the two in question. "Like a circus show?"

"Pretty much," nodded Enzo. "We were put into cages like animals, weakened from vervain injections, starved. The day of the party, everything went according to plan. Damon got out, fed more and gained the strength he needed to then help me. And there I was waiting in the cage for him to release me, waiting for my friend, my cellmate, the only soul with whom I'd connected with in all those years of captivity…" Any trace of a smile vanished in the next moment as he told what actually ended up happening. "Then a fire starts, burns out of control, but Damon just can't get the damn cage open."

Damon could feel his brother's gaze on him the more Enzo went on.

"…he looks me in the eye as if he doesn't even recognize me, turns around, saves himself, leaving me to die."

"Wow, that is horrible," Rosalie blurted and looked at Damon, "You are horrible."

Damon did his best not to let the shame become too evident on his face. "This coming from the woman who practically dessicated a human for 2000 years!"

"Ah! That's — it wasn't — " Rosalie splattered, flushing. "Amara had it coming for lying to everyone and it wasn't just her, okay. We got her and Silas! Neither one was very innocent."

"Cut it out you two," Stefan interrupted them, even more annoyed with Enzo as the latter seemed to take amusement in what he caused. "Clearly you didn't die," he told Enzo, implying it was high time to get over it.

Enzo smiled wryly in his direction. "No. Unfortunately I lived. I was spared by one of the scientists so I could spend another fifty years on a table being opened and closed. Happy ending, right?" He slid off the desk now that he was done with his story. "Now that we've all been acquainted, I'm gonna find something to wet my whistle."

"What's—?" Rosalie barely started to ask when Damon politely told her to shut up.

"You didn't tell us about him," Stefan remarked, drawing Damon's annoyance.

"It was the 1950s. I'm supposed to remember every moment of my life? Do you want to kill Aaron, or should I?"

"Woah! We are not going to kill him!" Rosalie exclaimed, getting up from her seat. Aaron jumped from his and backtracked from the group. "Damon, I really think you should deal with that guy instead," she pointed behind her where Enzo had left. "Because if you really shared the cell with him for 5 years, I know damn well you have to be fazed at least a little bit."

Damon ignored them both and turned to Aaron. "All good then, I will do it!"

Aaron backtracked even faster from them. "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on, hold on, hold on!" He nearly tripped in the aisle of chairs and held onto the back of another chair. "Wes gave me a bunch of files on my family history. They're in my dorm, okay? Maybe there's something in there you need, a name, I mean, another lab."

"Hm, that's a timely revelation," Damon remarked and this time both Rosalie and Stefan agreed with him.

"Yeah. Well, you know, he's not gonna help me, why should I help him?" Aaron retorted and straightened himself up but the moment he did, Damon was on him.

"I don't like you, I don't like your family, I don't like you messing up my relationship!" Damon backtracked him down the row of chairs. "If you're lying, I'm gonna take my thumbs, and I'm gonna gouge out your sad little eyes out of your sad little head!"

"Ah. It's frightening what you can find on campus these days…" Enzo said as he walked back into the classroom holding a bottle of alcohol.

"Ooh, you meant to get a drink…" Rosalie nodded to herself and made a mental note of the new saying. She was terribly behind on the slang. "Sorry, I just recently came back to life 4 months ago and I'm trying to learn as many metaphors as I can. It's not easy." Enzo gave her a strange, yet bemused glance.

"Okay, well we're gonna go with plan B," Stefan announced, "Let's go." He pointed Aaron to lead the way, under threat of course.

"Damon's not," called Enzo. He was pouring himself a drink at the desk. "Damon's staying right here. He knows all my secrets, so he knows how ornery I can get when I don't get my way."

Damon pressed his lips together and decided it was for the best if he humored his old pal. "Call me if you find anything, kill him if you don't."

"Well if you kill him, then we're really not gonna get anywhere," Rosalie said, letting out a tired sigh. Aaron seemed just as lost as they were, maybe even more. "Wouldn't happen to know where we could find Elena Gilbert could you? Kind of tall, brunette, really nice eyes?" She had her best kind smile plastered on her face when Enzo looked her way.

"Nice try," he pointed at her with his drink, "But 1) I don't care about Elena Gilbert, 2) I don't even know where she is anymore — or do I? — and 3) I don't care." He saluted everyone with his glass and drank again.

"Rosalie, let's just go," Stefan said, eyes glued on Aaron as the human scurried around Damon to get out.

"Actually, I think I'll stay," Rosalie announced, crossing her arms and glancing back at Damon.

"Talk about horrible ideas," he said with a frown. "Do you want to be sent back to the Other Side already? I'm sure Silas would love to give you a welcome back."

Rosalie deadpanned him for a moment before speaking to Stefan again. "I may not be at my best with my magic but I think Damon's gonna need the assistance if his friend over there—"

"That's a very loose label, love," Enzo made sure to call out before taking a drink from his glass.

"—decides to kick his ass for leaving him behind." Rosalie waited for about half a minute before looking over at Damon again. "Which, let's be honest, you would totally deserve."

"Who's side are you on!?" Damon groaned.

"His!" Rosalie pointed a thumb at Enzo. "You were a horrible cellmate! At least when Qetsiyah stabbed me, she still helped me in the end."

"Oh, wow, the standards are really high there, Rose," Damon said sarcastically, "You want to help? Get the damn locator spell going already!"

"I guarantee you that no spell is going to let you find Elena before Wes really gets into her," Enzo said, flashing Damon a smirk.

"Go, Stefan!" Rosalie ushered him towards the door. "I'll be fine!"

For fear of what Enzo said, Stefan decided to grab Aaron and leave. He did, however, give Damon another 'watch her' kind of look before making it out.

Rosalie heard the door close behind them and then looked between the two vampires left in the room. The awkwardness and tension was off the roof. "So…exactly what kind of classroom is this anyways?"

Damon couldn't take it and walked away from her. "Oh, just get out already!"

Rosalie rolled her eyes so hard it almost hurt her.

"Now then, Damon, don't be so rude," Enzo set his glass down on the desk. "Did your years of freedom really not teach you how to readjust into the world? I wouldn't know, right…"

"He's just pissed because everything that could go wrong today is," Rosalie said, leaning back on the desk of a chair. "Elena's gone, his girlfriend—"

"Oh, he knows, Rosalie!" exclaimed Damon. "Because I'm sure he's already met her!"

"I have," Enzo was happy to confirm. He poured more alcohol into the glass then held it out specifically to Rosalie. "I won't bite."

"You promise?" Rosalie smiled dryly at his joke. "I don't drink, actually, I much prefer those iced coffees they sell now. They're delicious! Back in my time, coffee didn't even exist."

"Really?" Enzo mused over her words. "Where exactly are you from again?" He saw Damon pulling a leg over the chair that would lead to the front row Rosalie was standing by. "C'mon mate, just making some chit chat here, no need to get nervous."

"Yeah, well, for some reason my brother likes her so…you know…gotta make sure you don't eat her." Damon was now standing beside Rosalie, ignoring the woman's flat look on him.

"Oh, I have my plans set for someone else," Enzo said, looking directly at Damon and took a big swig of his glass.

"Would it really kill you to just apologize?" Rosalie whispered-hissed to Damon. She was beginning to think this was all just a long distraction until Enzo got the jump on them.

"Stay out of it, Rosie," Damon said then spoke to Enzo, "What do you want, huh? You want me to feel guilty? I couldn't save you. Now, where's Elena?"

Enzo seemed like he had something to say but instead he began to grunt in pain. Even the drink he had taken was stuck in his throat as he coughed and leaned on the table for support.

"Wasn't me!" Rosalie raised her hands in front of her, alarmed.

"What's wrong with you?" Damon asked him, confused.

"Wes injected me with poison that will stop my heart," Enzo managed to explain. He was trying to push through the pain in his chest. "I'll desiccate if I don't return for the antidote."

"All the more reason to tell me where he is!" Damon exclaimed. "Look. You get the antidote, I'll save my girlfriend, we'll kill Wes together!" But Enzo basically ignored the proposition.

"Did you even think about it after you left, the experiments, the cell, or did you just go out and live your merry life to its fullest?" Once he was strong enough again, he walked towards Damon.

Damon, in turn, subtly pushed Rosalie to the side just as Enzo came to face him. "Look at me. If you go back, we go back together. We finish this for good. Come on." He offered his hand to Enzo to seal the deal.

Enzo took it but instead of shaking on it, he used his grip to pull Damon closer to him. "You're not gonna see your girl again, Damon" — Rosalie winced as she heard Damon's bones crack — "because I want the antidote, and Wes told me not to come back until you were dead." Enzo then grabbed Damon's neck with his other hand and threw him out the window.

Rosalie's eyes widened, her hands clapping to her mouth.

"I would stay right where you are, sweetheart," Enzo warned her before jumping out the window himself.

"…like hell…" Rosalie mumbled and dashed out of the classroom. If Enzo really did plan on killing Damon, she would have to suck it up and use her magic to help.

The only problem was making her way out of the building. If she hadn't been arguing with Damon so much, maybe she would've remembered what hallways they used to get back downstairs. She finally ran out the entrance doors and looked for the two vampires. How nobody noticed such a crash — Damon had landed on a car and totaled it — was beyond her. The new world was just so clueless.

She found Damon and Enzo not too far from the entrance fighting with each other. Of course when she grew closer, she saw it was really more of a one-sided fight as Enzo kept punching Damon across the face and the latter was just letting it happen.

He does feel guilty, Rosalie concluded. Well, it meant that somewhere in there, Damon did have a heart.

"Enzo, look at me!" she heard Damon yell and realized Enzo had stopped fighting. Gray veins were running up his arms.

"Bloody poison!" Enzo grunted as he fell to his knees, Damon still holding him.

"Where is he? Where's Elena? Tell me where she is!" Damon said desperately as the veins crept up Enzo's face.

"Or what?! You never see her again? It might be good for you to know what it's like to miss someone for the next sixty years!"

"Enzo, look at me. Hey! Enzo! Where is she? Where is she!?"

But Enzo desiccated completely before he said another word.

Damon groaned, frustrated, and looked over at Rosalie running up to them. "Fix him!" he ordered her.

"But I—"

"Rosalie, fucking fix him!"

"I can't!" Rosalie exclaimed.

"WHY NOT!?"

"Because he's not poisoned with magic!" Rosalie argued. "This is science and I don't know a thing about that! He needs the antidote that Wes guy has!"

"The lab…" Damon said suddenly.

"What?"

"Wes had another lab here!"

"What, on campus?"

"No, at Disneyland — yes here!"

"What's Disneyland?"

Damon couldn't possibly glare harder at Rosalie. His eye nearly twitched. Stefan owed him big time for leaving her with him.

~ 0 ~

Rosalie was sentenced to wait outside the lab for her safety and for Damon's sanity. Even if he didn't believe her, she was sorry for being so clueless…and useless.

She sat at the bottom of the staircase talking to Caroline and Bonnie through the three-way that Caroline showed her last night. "Maybe I'm just more of a load than I thought. And a useless load at that," Rosalie said after recounting the day to the girls.

"Nu-uh!" snapped Caroline. "You are forbidden to feel like that, especially because of Damon Salvatore of all people. Now that guy seriously has no business saying anything!"

"Caroline, calm down," Bonnie said, "It's not actually about Damon, if you haven't noticed. Rosalie's just feeling the pressure of adjusting to the new world. But Rose, it's literally only day two. You have to take it slowly."

Rosalie sighed. "That's easier said than done. On the Other Side, all I did was just watch. I watched the world go by but never learned how to go along with it. Now I'm actually in this world and I have no idea what to do."

"It's fine. Stefan found Elena and she's safe," reminded Bonnie. "Now you have to go home and rest too."

"Hm, you know, after being dead for 2000 years, I'm not all that sleepy. Besides, Katherine is staying over and she sort of doesn't like me…"

Both Caroline and Bonnie scoffed at that.

"She's lucky she got to stay there," Caroline huffed. "But don't worry, none of us like her either. See? You're fitting in perfectly already."

"Yeah, I think that's probably about the only thing Damon and I can agree on…"

"Rosalie, you can come stay with us in our dorm if you want," Bonnie offered. "We only have 3 beds but we can work something out!"

Rosalie thanked them for the offer but she felt like she shouldn't ruin their sleep just because of her existential crisis. "It's fine. I'll be fine. I'm not going to let 2000 years get me down, you know? I have to figure this world out on my own."

"Yeah, but you're definitely not alone," Caroline said.

"I know, and I thank you guys for it. I just meant that I have to learn about the world. I'm not dead anymore, Qetsiyah isn't here anymore, so…I have to figure it out." A noise upstairs startled her and her first instinct was to hang up and rush up the stairs. She was only halfway up when Enzo was coming down, but she still froze nervously.

"No need to worry, he's alive," Enzo all but muttered with disdain. "Not that he ever cared if I wasn't…"

Rosalie stayed in her spot while he walked around her, still muttering to himself. She recognized the ire with which he spoke and sympathized. "You know, for all the teasing I did, I think he really does feel guilty about what he did," she turned on the step and looked down where Enzo had stopped, "But, you know, you are right to be mad."

"What?" He said, mildly interested in her point.

"I meant that…that you're right to be mad — you have a right to be mad.." Rosalie cleared her throat, trying to ease her nerves as Enzo turned completely around. "I think this is a very good example that humans can be just as monstrous as what they believe vampires are."

"Well, as far as humans go, I think Augustine is about the most inhumane a human could get," Enzo said.

"I'm sorry," Rosalie said and wished there was more that could be done for his sake. "I can't imagine what that must have been like…"

"To give you a bit of an idea, it makes you feel like you're less than any living creature. I couldn't even hang onto the most basic thing of mine which was my name. I was a number to them," he said, jaw clenched with rightful anger, "12144."

"I'm sorry, I'm very sorry…"

He felt her honesty from his spot and gave her an acknowledging nod. At least she tried, unlike everyone else.

"If you're accepting advice, please take mine. I have some experience in the matter of being put away somewhere — The Other Side. That's the supernatural purgatory for all of, er, us non-humans. But recently, I was freed so…that anger you feel about being imprisoned against your will, yeah I get that. I didn't exactly die of natural causes, someone killed me, and trust me, I had a lot of time to stew in my own anger. I was furious about everything and with everyone but I promise you that it doesn't last forever."

"So what exactly did you do to get over it?" Enzo asked. "Because I doubt you woke up one day and decided to get past it."

"I didn't," agreed Rosalie. "But Time is literally all you have on the Other Side. You can't feel or be seen or heard in that place so I just watched. I watched the world go by, the people…And then with time, I stopped being angry."

Until I was brought back from the dead to finish a revenge plot. He didn't need to know that. In fact, she suspected he had not heard anyone speak to him kindly and about his feelings. He didn't need to hear her whole story, just the parts that would validate his situation.

"So yeah, I just…I just wanted you to know that you're right to be mad and that it's not right that no one understands that but also…don't waste time being angry. Trust me, this new world is so nice…lots of things to try." Her smile then was very genuine as she thought of the things she got to do lately. Sleepovers and random smoothies were just the beginning of her new reality.

"Hm…" Enzo seemed to ponder for a moment, a moment that lasted long enough for Rosalie to panic thinking she'd earned his ire as well. "So in this new world, what would you recommend I try first?"

Rosalie was pleasantly surprised with the response. "Um…the food!" she exclaimed. "Definitely the food! It's way better than what it used to be! The desserts are to die for—"

"Rosalie!" Damon shouted from upstairs, no doubt having heard her yapping on.

Rosalie sighed. "And that would be my ride calling. I know that I'm no one to you but just try and listen to what I said, okay? Take care." She waved at Enzo and finished her way up the stairs. By the time she looked down, he was already gone.

~0~

The ride back to the boarding house was surprisingly quiet and Rosalie honestly didn't feel like pushing Damon's buttons anymore. Today was probably enough for him.

She saw Elena in the living room almost as soon as they stepped in and hurried to see her. "Thank goodness you're okay!"

Elena hugged her back and thanked her. "These aren't your clothes…"

Rosalie flushed and told her that they were Caroline's. "We had a sleepover yesterday…"

"Okay," chuckled Elena, "we are definitely going shopping tomorrow. Promise."

"It's okay," Rosalie said and backtracked. She noticed that Damon wasn't exactly the joyful boyfriend he should have been seeing that his girlfriend was free and okay. "Have a goodnight." She rushed up the stairs, getting the feeling that things were going to get very awkward.

She crossed the hallway intending on heading straight to her bedroom when Stefan called her, albeit in his usual quiet voice. He stood beside his bedroom doorway when she turned around.

"Uh oh, why do I get the feeling I'm in trouble?" She could read on his face that something was on his mind.

"How was the rest of your day?" he asked her instead.

"Umm…good…" She replied, bringing her arms behind her back, "I mean, Damon has some manner issues but nothing significant. I actually think I should apologize for being so hard on him today…"

"Mm…and that was it?" Stefan asked, now eyeing her as if looking for something. It took Rosalie a few seconds to realize he was trying to make sure she wasn't hurt.

"Nobody harmed me, Stefan," she assured him.

"I know Damon wouldn't, but his cellmate on the other hand…"

"Enzo wasn't looking to kill us, Stefan, he was angry and hurt," Rosalie walked up to him, "And truthfully, after what Damon did, I'd be mad too. I mean, you were mad at him for leaving you in that safe in the quarry for four months. Damon left Enzo for dead. You heard him — Damon left him in a cage to burn alive and because of that, he spent the next 60 years being continuously tortured. That is grounds for a justifiable argument, don't you think?"

Stefan looked away but the corners of his mouth were curling upwards. "That's one way to think about it…" He met her gaze and his smile became full-fledged upon seeing her nervous face. "And around here, we all pretty much think the same way."

"So is this good or bad?" Rosalie tilted her head, her hair swishing with her. "Because Damon wasn't too happy with me."

"Yeah, well Damon's hardly happy with anyone who isn't Elena. I wouldn't pay much attention to that."

Rosalie chuckled lightly. "Got it. I'm okay, Stefan, promise. There's no scratch on me."

Stefan smiled at her. "Good. But next time, let's try not to stick around the spot where the fight is gonna break out, okay?"

"Okay," Rosalie nodded. "I'll see you tomorrow. Goodnight." She left him to go to her room, hoping to rest but neither she nor Stefan knew that a few hours later, they would both be woken up by a loud rumble on the stairs.

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