A Dangerous Desire

Bucket List

Victoria POV:

Bree was getting in town tomorrow which meant Damon was about to open the tomb which meant my days in this world were numbered because he certainly would never forgive me for not telling him Katherine wasn't in the tomb. I used this week to get closer to Stefan hoping that might afford me some protection but I wasn't holding out a lot of hope.

I wasn't sure if I died if I would return to my own world or if maybe I was already dead and this was some weird afterlife... I guess I would soon find out. It's a weird feeling knowing your days are numbered you get more confident more sure of yourself knowing you have to make what time you have left count. I even went ahead and made a MYSTIC FALLS/VAMPIRE DIARIES BUCKET LIST:

1. Go skinny dipping in the quarry 

2. Find the caves that ran under the Lockwood property and add my name to the Viking Mikaelson's 

3. Find probably the only Alaric Saltzman listed in the world and get a message to him that Isobel wasn't dead dead but a vampire and if he was ever near Mystic Falls he should look up a Jenna Sommers.

4. Make a stake out of the wood from the welcome sign and give it to Jeremy along with a cryptic note along the lines only for use on Finn or Kol and if you don't mind Stefan and Damon dying... Klaus.

5. Pay Shiela Bennett a visit and warn her against letting Bonnie open a magically sealed coffin, that Esther was a b***h who should stay dead.

I just need one last epic one but I was unsure what it should be but when I saw Bree I had a bolt of inspiration. I asked her to buy me a couple of days before opening the tomb and get me Lexi's number.

She was skeptical and only promised to delay one day but I had Lexi's digits and I knew the last epic thing I wanted to do while in this world.

Damon POV:

Bree was getting everything ready to open the tomb, just one more day and I would finally rescue Katherine and she would see who the better man was, the one who never gave up on her or replaced her with a human copy, she would finally be all mine.

I begrudgingly admit Victoria had come in handy-- that double-crossing b***h Emily possessed Bonnie and tried to stop me from entering the tomb by destroying the crystal but thanks to the druggie psychic I didn't need it and Stefan was still completely clueless to my plans and had zero chance of stopping me. Although now that I think about it I hadn't seen Vickie for a few days... she better not be planning against me if she knows what's good for her.

Victoria POV:

Numbers 1 to 3 were done but carving a stake was hella hard and I was a little scared to visit "grams." When I called Lexi I told her I was a friend of Stefan's and I didn't think I'd be around for long and needed her help to pull off something epic to go out with a bang. She wanted to talk to Stefan and see if there was a way to save me but I told her I would only tell her what was wrong if she helped me with my plan she begrudgingly agreed and with Lee's help we were off to Whitmore college.

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Lexi and Lee and I were driving down to Whitmore college, I was surprised because from what I remember Lexi didn't have a daylight ring... which now that I think about it doesn't make much sense since she was friends with a witch. But anyway apparently they had UV protective glass on the windows so we were fine to be in the car at least.

"So how did you and Stefan become friends?" Lexi asks me

I can't tell you what possessed me but I decide just to tell her the truth, 

"Oh you know I watched this tv series off and on for almost 7 years and one day I wake up and I'm a character in the show. I tried to save some lives while I was here but now my lies are gonna catch up to me so I wanted to try and save one more before I have to pay the piper."

Ehh if I'm gonna die anyway why keep lying right?

"Wait... WHAT?!" Lee asks shocked,

"You're... you're not joking, are you?" Lexi says getting serious,

"Sadly no.... OH! if Damon asks you to go to a party on Stefan's birthday, say no. There just saved another life, look at me go."

"Damon was gonna have me killed?!" Lexie exclaims furious with the older Salvatore brother.

"Yeah he said it was to get the town's suspicion over vampires away from him and Stefan but I think it was just a d**k move, a way to prove to Stefan there was no redeeming him."

"Well I'm convinced," Lee says angry about any harm coming to Lexi

I think about it and "actually..." I start to say,

Lexi turns around, "what? you think there is something redeemable about Damon?"

I nod, "I've seen it, yes. but I don't know if what I've seen will come true anymore, I don't know what's real anymore. There's this girl, Elena Gilbert. She looks just like Katherine and she has a way with both Salvatore's... she brings out their humanity, makes them care about each other again. I hope that still happens in this weird AU timeline whatever."

"Putting a pin in Stefan stupidly being involved with someone who looks just like Katherine, what is it you want my help with, some secret evil scientist society?" Lexi asks,

"Yeah, there's this guy, Enzo, he has been tortured by these dr. Mangala mother fuckers for 70 odd years. Damon thinks he's dead but in the show I saw he's not. He doesn't have anyone, he was an orphan, no one is coming for him, if I can help end his suffering before Damon kills me for not telling him Katherine has been out of that tomb all these years, I think it'll make this whole strange trip worth it."

"Hey, maybe that's what wrong with you? You're on a bad acid trip or something," Lee suggests

I smile, "that'd be classic, I do drugs for the first time in my life and wake up as a stoner in a TV show. You guys seem weirdly okay with me saying im from another reality."

Lexi shrugs, "hey, we're vampires who are we to say what's real or not."

"Good point."

"So was I in this TV show of yours?" Lee asks.

"Umm yeah briefly, Damon and Elena are on a road trip to see Bree and you kidnapped Elena to lure Damon out and then almost killed him to avenge Lexi but Elena talked you out of it saying Lexi was a good person which means you must be too so you were better than this."

"And that worked?"

"What can I say, Elena Gilbert seems to have a way with men, not even in a slutty manipulative way like Katherine-- its more like she's just pure goodness and you can't help but want to do what she thinks is good, if that makes any sense."

"No, not really" Lexi says, "but I will deal with Stefan and Elena later, right now let's go over the plan to rescue Mr. Enzo St. John."

"From what I can remember there's this Nazi youth looking guy, Wes Maxfield, he's the current lead scientist who's trying to develop a ripper virus that will turn vampires cannibal, make you guys only crave vampire blood to the extent you rip each other apart. "

"That sounds lovely," Lee says dryly.

"Yup so while I don't want to cause anyone's death I'm thinking we compel Aaron Whitmore to... I don't know drive into a telephone pole so he goes to the hospital and they call his only family, Wes, giving us time to get Enzo and blow up all their research ending the Agustine society once and for all."

"So what does this Enzo look like?" Lexi asks

Lee looks over to her, "why are you asking?"

Lexi shrugs, "well I'm just thinking if I was dropped into a tv show I would find the guy I was major fan girl-ling over and pounce.... if I was single of course."

I smile, I really like Lexi, I hope Damon doesn't kill her

"Well I already did that, Damon-- but he's not really too stable right now."

"And you think a vampire who has been tortured for 70 years living on a few ounces of blood a day will be safer to get your mack on with?"

"No... maybe, I don't know but if I'm gonna die soon anyway why not give it a whirl."

"You know I'm not gonna let Damon kill you right?" Lexi tells me trying to give me comfort, 

"Why do you care?" I ask, I am touched by her concern but I'm not sure what I've done to earn it.

Lexi smiles, "remember I'm good, and your friends with Stefan and you saved my life."

"I'm not really friends with Stefan, I've lied to him about almost everything and really only got close to him to feed Damon info so he wouldn't terrorize me."

"Well the saving my life part was true, and that will matter more to Stefan," she tells me.

"I could have been lying about that," I counter.

"No, you think Damon is going to kill you, you have no reason to lie or else you would have made up something a lot more believable than your from another reality where this one was just some tv show."

"Thank you, both of you for helping me, you don't owe me anything but it means a lot just to even talk freely like this and not make up like you said something more believable."

"Your welcome."

Meanwhile back in Mystic Falls,

Everyone is getting ready for the Founder's Party. With Vicki MIA and Bree "busy" getting everything ready for the tomb spell Damon compelled Caroline to be his date not wanting to miss a chance to get under Stefan's skin one more time.

Elena is reading the original Founder's party registry,

"The founding families in Mystic Falls welcomes you to the inaugural founder's council celebration. Wow, look, it's the original guest registry. Look at all these familiar names—Sheriff William Forbes, Mayor Benjamin Lockwood. Is that Damon Salvatore? And, Stefan Salvatore?"

"The original Salvatore brothers. Our ancestors. Tragic story, actually," Damon says coming up from behind her.

"We don't need to bore them with stories of the past," Stefan says

"It's not boring, Stefan. I'd love to hear more about your family," Elena tells her date.

Caroline sighs, "well, I'm bored. I want to dance. And Damon won't dance with me. Could I just borrow your date?"

Elena looks very uncomfortable "Oh, uh..."

"I don't really dance," Stefan says

"Oh, sure he does. You should see him. Waltz, the jitterbug, the moonwalk. He does it all," Damon interjects wanting to get Elena alone.

"You wouldn't mind, would you, Elena?" Caroline asks,

"It's up to Stefan," Elena says

"Well sorry, but I'm not going to take no for an answer," Caroline takes Stefan out to dance.

Left alone Damon tries to smooth things over with Elena,

"I want to apologize to you for being such a world-class jerk the other night when I tried to kiss you. There's no excuse. My therapist says I'm...Acting out, trying to punish Stefan."

"For what?" She asks.

"It's all in the past. I don't even want to bring it up. Let's just say that the men in the Salvatore family have been cursed with sibling rivalry. And it all started with the original Salvatore brothers. The Salvatore name was practically royalty in this town. Until the war. There was a battle here—"

"The Battle of Willow Creek," Elena says having just heard about it in school.

"Right."

"I know, we talked about it in class. Confederate soldiers fired on a church with civilians inside."

Damon gets a far off look, "what the history books left out was the people that were killed. They weren't there by accident. They were believed to be union sympathizers. So some of the founders on the confederacy side back then wanted them rounded up and burned alive. Stefan and Damon had someone they loved very much in that church. And when they went to rescue them, they were shot. Murdered in cold blood."

"Who was in the church that they wanted to save?"

Damon smiles "a woman, I guess. Doesn't it always come down to the love of a woman?"

Elena can't help but feel a little sympathy for Damon but her loyalty is ultimately to Stefan, "look, I'm sorry that you and Stefan have this thing between you, but I can't get in the middle of it, Damon. I just...I hope you two can work it out."

"I hope so, too."

Elsewhere Stefan slips vervain into Caroline's drink and the two are off to the side talking so her mom doesn't catch her with alcohol.

"So you're Damon's date, what happened with Victoria?"

"I don't know probably found a pill bottle she found more interesting."

That alarms Stefan, "when was the last time you saw her?"

Caroline shrugs uninterested, "we're not exactly bff's"

"Right, well if you hear anything please let me know okay... I'm worried and she's not responding to my texts."

"Fine, whatever."

[Damon and Elena go out to meet Stefan and Caroline]

"What'd we miss?"

Stefan smiles, "we were just chatting. Drink, Damon?"

"No, thanks, I'll pass."

"Stefan, do you have another dance in you?" Elena asks excited to get her date back.

"Absolutely."

[Stefan takes Elena out to the dance floor.]

Caroline and Damon are now left alone,

"What was my brother talking to you about?"

"He wanted to know where Vicki Donovan was."

"That makes two of us."

Back at Whitmore College, the sun has set and everything is now in motion. Lexi Lee and Victoria watch Wes take the bait and drive off to be by his nephew's side allowing them to slip in but Lexi and Lee bounce off the invisible barrier.

Victoria POV:

"Crap I forgot to factor that in."

"Just go get him, well keep anyone from entering," Lexi tells me I nod and hurry in finding the entrance to the basement. Damn this place is super creepy, I hope there are no other members around this time of night, no no one else is here Lexi or Lee would have heard their heartbeat it's fine just find Enzo and get out.

I'm by the cages now, it's dark and damp and definitely something out of a horror movie down here.

I turn a corner and holding up my cell phone I see a figure in the back corner of the last cell.

"En..Enzo?" I try calling his name again but nothing so I open up one of the blood bag I brought with me and zoosh he materializes right in front of my face, if I ever doubted any of this was real I don't now because my heart is about to beat out of my chest!

"Hello there."

"H...Hi. I brought this for you."

"A bit more than my usual ration size, not that im complaining." He grabs the bag through the bars scaring the crap out of me and rips into it. before pinning me down with his intense dark gaze, "what was that lovely gift for, love?"

"I'm here to rescue you." 

He laughs "Is that right?" 

I'm finding it hard to use my words right now so I just nod.

"Well, carry on with the show then." 

I tell him he might want to stand back but he tells me he'll be fine, I'm thinking he has serious doubts about my ability to really spring him but I take out the c4  and attach it around the cell's hinges. His eyes widen and he takes a couple of steps back. I run the wire a bit and hide behind a wall trying to keep myself from blowing up and then hold my breath and blow it.

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It was awesome!

the noise the bang, the debris and cloud of dust, and then Enzo emerged out of it like a god. he paused and held out his hand for me to help me up.

"Don't stop now, you're just starting to impress me, let's carry on with my rescue shall we."

I undercut how badass I just was by lamely just nodding again.

We're racing to the exit now when I stop and remember why else I'm here.

"Why are you stopping?"

"We can't just leave," I tell him

"I kind of thought that was the entire point to all this."

I shake my head, "no, they'll keep going find someone else to torture, we need to destroy everything they have leave them with nothing."

"That can be done later! Right now we need to leave!"

"No, I may not have later, just go I have friends waiting outside I'm right behind you." I take off running grabbing files here setting fires there when I hear Enzo come back in and start helping me.

"Why did you come back, you were almost free?"

"I'm not one to leave behind a friend, not my style." 

I smile and quickly get back to work not wanting Enzo to regret his choice in coming back for me. I would say we have about 60-70% of everything and I make the executive decision it's enough and time to go. The fires were growing and we needed to leave. 

Looking at Enzo's face when he breathed in free air stepping across that threshold, I knew I chose right, this was truly epic.