A Dangerous Desire

It's Been Awhile

I approached from behind Enzo to see who tried to grab me, and I am shocked.

It was...

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Tanner!

"Mr. Tanner? What are you doing?"

Enzo turns back to me, "you know him?"

"Uh, sorta he's my history teacher,"

"I was until I woke up like this... I smelled you from the woods as you were walking, I needed a taste, it was too much to fight, and then the sun set... I had to." 

He tries to get out of Enzo's grip but Enzo easily slams him down to the ground.

I look around making sure none of my neighbors are watching.

"You're a vampire," I say stating the obvious, "How?"

"Damon Salvatore,"

"Damon? He turned you why?" I ask not understanding what had provoked him

Tanner sneers at me, "something about not letting you win anymore."

"Win? how does Damon think I'm winning?"

Enzo returns his attention to Tanner, "well, sorry mate I'm afraid your eternal life will be a short one." Before I know what he's doing Enzo rips out Tanner's heart and disappears the body.

When he gets back I am sitting on the front stoop with my head between my legs trying not to throw up.

"Come on love, it's alright, it's all taken care of," he tells me gently,

I shake my head, "no, no it's not... if Damon overheard Stefan or- oh crap he must have read it in his diary! If he... then he knows everyone he was supposed to hurt or kill since coming here... he's going to undo everything!"

"Then we'll stop him."

"How? Stefan isn't strong enough on animal blood and I don't know anything about taking down a vampire, I've only lasted this long due to my knowledge and clever... thoroughly planned strategies!" 

I am starting to hyperventilate as I panic more and more suddenly Enzo is in front of me, he takes me and pulls me into a hug.

I start to be able to breathe again.

"Thanks, I needed that," I tell him,

"I've noticed... whenever someone hugs you-- you close your eyes in bliss, like a man who was given a glass of water in the desert. You desire connection if anyone understands that it is me."

I hold onto Enzo tighter, thanking him for understanding me, I feel less alone now. It's nice, peaceful, hopeful.

"Alright, now come on, we are going to need a list to know who needs protection."

I take a deep breath and try to think back over season 1 of the series "alright, there was Tanner, me, Caroline, Bonnie's Grams, Lexie, Bree, uhh Jeremy maybe... I don't know, I think that's it I can't think of anyone else."

Enzo nods, "alright, call Stefan check with him make sure you didn't mention anyone else." 

He starts to walk off,

"Alright, wait where are you going?"

"It's time to pay an old friend a visit."

Boarding House 

Damon POV:

I had come to this town for Katherine and the whole time a human had been playing me, no more. I was a badass psycho vampire who didn't care about anyone or anything and it was time I started acting like it again.

I had often amused myself by reading Stefan's diary but when I saw the entry recalling his talks with Lexie and Victoria, over everything that little b***h had done since coming here to thwart my plans, I suddenly had a new purpose in life. I was going to take back every kill she took from me starting with Zach and ending with her.

According to Stefan's diary, Vee had told Zach about another relative he had been keeping secret from me... I didn't know who it could be, he wouldn't even disclose the name in his own writings but that's where he had taken off to. The truth was I didn't even really notice his absence but I would make sure his neck snapped just as it should have weeks ago... Just had to find the bastard first,

Tanner was easy, nobody liked him-- he'd been missing for 2 days and no one had even noticed, they were just happy to have a break from the obnoxious ass. I left him out in the woods when I turned him leaving him to cling to moving shadows during the day. I smirked at all the c*****e and chaos he would cause before they caught on.

Next on my hit list was Bree, I had told everyone she left to go back to her bar but really, I ripped her heart out right after I spilled my seed in her one last time. My next thought was Jeremy... I wanted to compel him to forget everything, his very sister... but he was always with Anna and she was older and stronger than me so I'd have to bide my time with him and Shiela would be potentially even more difficult to due to her witchy juju... something told me using my seduction skills on her wouldn't work to lower her guard the way it did on Bree. So I set my sights on Caroline. 

It was pretty easy, just flash the baby blues and she was putty in my hands. She was currently unconscious on my bed I was just waiting for her to wake up so I could start having fun when suddenly I felt a pain in my neck... it didn't make sense who would have gotten the jump on me? Stefan's diet meant his skills couldn't have topped mine so who? I thought as I lost consciousness from the vervain injection.

Enzo POV:

I gave the blonde some of my blood and texted Vee to get Stefan to get her out of here. Then I moved Damon down to the cells they had in the basement. When Stefan and Vee got here, she helped me restrain him with vervain soaked ropes as Stefan drove the unconscious girl home.

After she was done I added some chains just to be safe... and also for a little fun. Then I told her to leave. She looked hesitant but eventually nodded and left me to it.

I opened a blood bag and held it under his nose, I could see he was coming to...

let the games begin!

3rd Person POV:

Damon came to moaning from the pain in his neck, and then from trying to move his limbs only to be met with the vervain soaked ropes.

He hissed in pain as his skin burned and opened his eyes to see who had done this to him... when everything finally came into focus he was sure he was hallucinating.

"Enzo?"

Enzo saunters toward him trying to savor every bit of this moment, "21051, It's been a while... mate."

"How?" Damon asks not understand what he's seeing,

"The girl, your trying to torment... Victoria, she saved me."

"But you died almost-"

"55 years ago?" Enzo supplies, "No. You left me to die that long ago but I didn't... see I was saved, unfortunately, by one of the scientists so I could spend another half a century being opened and closed again."

"And Victoria knew... and saved you?" "Damon asks trying to fill in the blanks

"She did, came charging into Augustine to my rescue, with explosives no less, she blew my cell door open and off we went into the... well, it was nighttime so no sunset but you get the picture."

Damon sneers, "Well, she hasn't exactly shown me the same mercy."

Enzo laughs, "Why? You wanted into the tomb, you got your wish... it's hardly her fault that the one girl you loved didn't love you back. Come on mate, you act like your the first person who's ever been betrayed... who's ever felt pain. Time to grow up."

Damon rolls his eyes, "so what's the plan uh, gonna keep me down here, torture me a bit until I decide to turn my switch back on start acting like a good boy again?"

"Sounds fun, but no. I don't care if you ever become a better person. See once I got free the lovely duo of Lexie and Lee showed me how to use this marvelous invention called google. Wanna know the first thing I searched for was?"

"Porn?"

Enzo smirks,

"No... it was Maggie."

"A bit old for you now, wouldn't she be?"

"Well she would be if I saw people the way you do," Enzo explains,  "only by what I can get from them, how they can please and serve me. But she wasn't just some potential conquest for me... she was hope. 70 years of captivity and her's was the face I clung onto, just the notion that one day I could get out and see her again, I didn't want to date her, Damon... I wanted to thank her. She was the only thing that kept me sane all those years, but see she's gone now."

"Why do I somehow feel like this is going to be my fault?" Damon asks trying to guess where this is going,

"Well, for all your faults, stupidity isn't one of them. You see I discovered Maggie was murdered, ripped apart. Naturally, I remembered stories you told me of your brother. I was about to find him and tear him apart piece by piece when Lexie saw the date... November 8th 1960."

Damon closes his eyes pained, "She never told me her name."

Enzo with gloves grabs some vervain clippings and forces it down Damon's throat.

"Now, now, getting ahead of my story, Mate... Now, where was I. Ah yes, so Lexi sees the date, she tells me Stefan left America shortly after a woman confronted him looking for you. He thought he had scared her off but I guess he was wrong. She wanted to find you, because she knew you were responsible for the fire, for my death. She was trying to AVENGE ME! and you killed her!"

Damon rolls his eyes, "Enzo, it's not like I did it to make your life miserable, I did it because I didn't care!"

"Yeah yeah, your precious switch. A convenient excuse for never having to be held responsible for your actions. Tell me why should I let you live, you care for no one and nothing, what does immortality even mean to you? No one will love you, because your incapable of caring for anyone but yourself. Upset Katherine wasn't pining away for you? Get over it, it's pathetic your obsession with her. You are all alone Damon, and it's not Katherine's fault or Stefan's or Victoria's... it's yours."

Enzo speeds to Damon snapping his neck.

He comes up the stairs to see Victoria and Stefan waiting for him.

Vee stands up, "Is he dead?"

"No, I have a better idea. What he is really most afraid of."

"What?" Stefan asks

Enzo smiles, "Being forgotten."

Enzo and Stefan move Damon into the car and the pair with Victoria drive out of town, Stefan owns some property in Tennessee. They arrive the next afternoon having to stop several times along the way for bathroom breaks for Vick and to keep snapping Damon's neck.

Finally, they are here.

"What is this place?" Vee asks having never seen or heard about it in the series

Stefan explains, "Lexie helped me build it, looks like a normal farmhouse from the outside..."

"But inside?" Enzo asks

"Let's just say this is where I go when I need to be locked up... dried out."

"This is the Stefan Salvatore Ripper Rehab Retreat?"

"Something like that."

They go inside and get Damon situated. He's trapped, all alone, with nothing to entertain or distract him.

As the three of them leave Victoria asks, "How long are we going to leave him here?"

Stefan turns to her, "This isn't for you to worry about, I'll come every couple of decades see he's changed his tune."

Victoria while relieved Damon won't but hurting anyone else is having an attack of conscience... does he really deserve this? Does anyone?