Summary: Set in S6 when Caroline turned her humanity off. What if, starting in S2, Damon and Caroline were together instead of Damon and Elena ending up together throughout the series? What if Katherine never died of old age in S5? What if Katherine ended up having to be saved from a humanityless Caroline? What will happen?787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqIXT7epXXD
A/N: For those of you who do not recognize the scene, it’s from the episode when Caroline told Stefan to turn his humanity off in S6. Just a clarification.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡolFpMCCJ7p
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It was a nebulous (dark) night, as Damon Salvatore stood in the living room of the Salvatore boarding house, trying to think of where Caroline Forbes would go after she had turned her humanity off after losing her mother, Sheriff Liz Forbes. First her father had been killed a few years ago. Now her mother had died of cancer. She had no family left and it wasn’t like anyone she knew, apart from Elena of course, knew what it was like to lose both parents. It was different for Caroline, though. Now she had turned it off and he didn’t exactly know her as well as her friends did, so he didn’t really know where Blondie would go.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFNlAp7E6Fd
He set his empty shot glass he had been drinking Bourbon out of, on his drinking table.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8CvZ3Acmwt
When he smelled a familiar scent he knew all too well, he turned around to face her. Even as a human, she was annoying as hell to him. She was also a pain in his ass, but though he wouldn’t admit it to her or anybody else, she was helpful at times. As a vampiress, she had been 500 years old, so she had had 400 plus years on him. She’d know some things that he wouldn’t. In the past, she had been quite helpful. Besides, they had a lot in common, due to her siring him and making him in her own image. She taught him everything he knew and though he half hated her, there was a part of him that would always care. That part he always ignored, though. He wanted nothing to do with her. He wished she would just leave town already. There was nothing she could really do, but then again, she was here for protection due to her being human. Because of her being formerly 500 years old, she had more enemies than probably even she could count. She’d be dead if she had no protection and one of her enemies found her and saw that she was human.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzl83bSbA11
“Don’t you have somewhere else to be besides here? Go annoy someone else. I’m not in the mood,” he told her before she could say anything.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsVlU7AClkA
“Let me guess. Caroline and her non-emotions? I may be human, but I’m not deaf. I heard she turned it off,” she replied.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmqhponpYqf
“You’re not helping. Get out.”787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF4DNd1yS8S
“Fine,” she replied, before leaving. “I’ll be back in an hour. That should give you enough time to figure things out or whatever.”787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeZx47l7MIi
He watched her go and heard the front door, as she closed it, and wondered why she wasn’t being her normal annoying and pain in the ass self. Maybe this time she understand, he reasoned with himself. Or, if he was lucky, she wasn’t in the mood to be annoying and fight with him. Maybe she was just having an off day, he figured. Therefore, he didn’t dwell on it and just ignored her new behavior.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgrffrT8RBw
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Half an hour later, while Damon was in Whitmore, deciding to try the college first, a very human Katherine was captured and in a room in the basement of the college, Caroline in a room at the college, having a drink and waiting on Damon to show up. She was having fun with her humanity off, which made her wonder why she hadn’t turned it off a long time ago. It was fun for her in causing chaos and pain and misery; especially, when it was Katherine who was involved. For her, it was revenge for everything Katherine had done, though and she figured, even with his humanity on, Damon would enjoy this too. She believed that he hated Katherine more than even she did with or without her humanity on.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzLAFYSk8hF
Soon enough, he entered the room, closing the door behind himself, and saw her standing at the bar in the kitchen part of the room.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyRzLGuv82E
“So glad for you to join me, Damon.”787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡncXK82WYKk
“What’s that supposed to mean?” he inquired, figuring there had to be meaning behind what she had said. She had her humanity off, after all. He could relate. He was even worse without his humanity on, though. He had turned it off a little while after he had left Mystic Falls and his brother in 1864, upset, thinking that Katherine had been dead, when, in truth, she had just faked her death and hadn’t wanted even Damon to know about it.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy1AFCTH2y1
“I’ve been waiting for you. We can’t have any fun without you here,” she replied.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5uzgOwvaOG
“Well, you could’ve called. What are you up to?”787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkhqDjojzH2
“But that wouldn’t make it as fun if I called you. Just about to have some fun with Katherine,” she answered him without remorse or feeling.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpCmbEqhhMb
“Where is she?” he questioned, guessing what she meant by fun.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXIZsfTuiak
“The basement. Don’t worry. She’s alive for now, but when we’re done, let’s just say that she won’t be.”787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9whMxjx3HB
When she told him that, he knew he was right about what her intentions were when it came to Katherine. He had his limits though. Katherine had saved him from a life of being nothing, when she had turned him and again a few years ago when she had cured him of a werewolf bite. He didn’t fully hate her enough to kill her when she was still only human. Maybe as a vampire he would love to try, but as a human he wouldn’t. He had to save her. Just so she wouldn’t guess what his thoughts about it was, he made sure that he didn’t show his true feelings to her about it.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdE4dI6wV3L
He went to stand next to her at the bar.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKuS7Fcn8RE
“Let’s go see her,” she said, before turning her back on him.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT6JmJK3fE6
He took his chance to save Katherine by snapping her neck, not knowing what else to do.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWLP04X4Hc0
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Half an hour later, he found his way to the basement of the Whitmore College and followed the mixed scents of Katherine, human, and blood to find her.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeM6pHV5zfv
A few minutes later, he found her in a room on a bed, having already been injured; probably when she had been captured who knew how long ago or she had already had some “fun” with his ex-girlfriend.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEPXfSNNb4E
He went to stand at her bedside and looked down at her.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDyZ1z0YFeT
He rested a gentle hand on the side of her face.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZW8DpsF6uF
“Katherine, can you hear me?”787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNAehrWyANX
After about twenty minutes, she started to come to.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxA7DJmIDTr
“Damon?” she said softly from losing a lot of blood while she had been out for a while.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQohoWFXZkA
He took his hand away.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFLlexvlykb
“It’s okay. It’s just me. Let’s get you out of here.”787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIsYyY66xa8
He gently pulled her into his arms and then blurred away from Whitmore and to where he had parked his car. He then gently set her in the passenger’s seat and closed the door, before getting in and driving back to Mystic Falls. It wouldn’t be safe to keep her in Whitmore right now with Caroline’s humanity off. Not after what had just happened. He would’ve fed her his blood, but ever since she had been turned back into a human, she hadn’t been able to digest vampire blood, so it was useless for him to try. He had to get her to the Mystic Falls hospital, instead.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ7N7TDQFz8
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An hour later, she was taken care of and in Damon’s bed upstairs in the boarding house.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ljuZ5Nxya
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A few weeks later, after certain events ensuing, Damon was finally able to get Caroline to turn it back on and all was forgiven between the three of them. So he and Caroline’s story continued on.
