#hell you can even have vlad buy out axion labs early rather than mid s2 so he can tell valerie he can get damon his job back

[reanimatedgh0ul]

no see bc if we had actually gotten a scene in shades of gray where vlad struck a deal w valerie to become her benefactor and promised to help her get revenge on danny

it could've directly paralleled this scene from bitter reunions and it would've perfectly established how vlad's relationships w danny and valerie are meant to mirror each other from the very beginning