05. Monster's Ball

"What is this about, Damon?" an annoyed Stefan asked, entering the Salvatore's living room after being constantly called down by Damon.

"Finally" Damon said, in the living room with Jeremy, "Why did it take so long for you to appear?".

"Maybe because I was in the middle of trying to find the women who took the love of my life from me" Stefan snapped.

"You're trying to find Bonnie?" Jeremy asked.

"No, he's trying to kill Bonnie" Damon realised.

"She doesn't get to live after what she did to Fae" a furious Stefan.

"I had a feeling you were feeling like this, which is why I have a better idea for you" Damon stated.

"Which is what?" Stefan asked, a not interested look on his face.

"How would you like to bring Fae back to life?" Damon asked, gaining not only his brother's attention but also Jeremy's.

"How would we do that?" a curious Jeremy asked.

"So as we know in a psychotic lapse of judgement Bonnie decided to bring you back to life by sacrificing Fae's life" Damon recalled, "May she rest in peace".

"She's actually right over there" Jeremy informed, gesturing towards the chair that Fae was sitting in.

"Whatever his plan is, it's going to be awful" Fae told Jeremy, as Stefan's eyes landed on the empty chair, really wishing he could talk to Fae.

"Whatever, look" Damon said, "The whole point is, I just happen to know a supernatural being who just happens to wanna die, and in the spirit of nature needing balance and a life for a life and all that stuff I just think it would be a huge waste of a perfectly good death".

"What the hell are you talking about?" a confused Stefan asked.

"Something neither Caroline or Kaitlynn don't need to know about until it works" Damon replied.

"Wait, you wanna work with Silas?" a shocked Jeremy asked.

"Are you insane?!" Stefan asked, "Have you forgotten what he did to our brother?".

"No I haven't forgotten" Damon snapped, "But unlike you, I'm putting my emotions aside for a second to think logically".

"That's a first" Fae commented, not liking where ever this plan was going.

"From the beginning Silas' whole bad guy plan was to kill himself, pass on to wherever he was gonna pass on to and reunite with his dead girlfriend Amara" Damon explained, "I wanna use his death to bring Fae back to life, to die, he has to be mortal, if he's mortal, he's a witch, and if he dies as a witch, then he's stuck on the other side forever".

"He already tried to bring down the veil to the other side, he failed" Jeremy reminded.

"He probably has a plan B" Fae told Jeremy, "And this time I think whatever he wants to do, it's more then just dropping the veil and letting all the ghosts into our world".

Damon looked at Jeremy and realised he was looking at the vacant seat, meaning he was talking to Fae, "She knows we can't hear her, right?".

"She thinks Silas wants to destroy the other side completely" Jeremy informed.

"Any powerful spell a witch does, they usually bind that spell to something even more powerful" Fae explained, "Lile the full moon, or a comet, even a doppelganger and soulmates, the other side was made two thousand years ago and somehow it still exits, it means when Qetsiyah made the other side, she bounded it to something that could exist forever".

"Back to my original question" Damon said, after Jeremy told him and Stefan everything Fae said, "Let's say Silas destroys the other side, cures himself, becomes a witch, is it supernaturally possible that he can do a spell that swaps her life for his life once he, pfft, kills himself?".

"Well, supernaturally anything is possible" Fae stated, "But Jeremy, we can't trust Silas, why are we forgetting what he did to Brayden? He is a ruthless being, whatever spell he does it's going to come with a consequence, a consequence I refuse to pay, so tell them no, we're not working with Silas to bring me back".

"What is she saying?" a hopeful Stefan asked.

Jeremy hesitated for a moment, "She's in" he finally said.

"Are you kidding me?!" a furious Fae asked, while Damon and Stefan looked at each other happily, both happy that they had a plan to bring back Fae.

***

Caroline walked down the stairs of the Whitmore's historical ball, all dressed up in her Bonnie outfit from Bonnie and Clyde.

"So should I assume you had something to do with all of this?".

Caroline turned to the side and a smile formed on her face seeing Brayden walking over to her, all dressed up in his James Dean outfit.

"I may have emailed them a few suggestions" Caroline admitted, making Brayden chuckle.

"Of course" Brayden laughed, he then took a moment to look at Caroline's costume, "Bonnie from Bonnie and Clyde?".

"Yeap" Caroline confirmed.

"Where's your Clyde?" Brayden asked.

Caroline shrugged, "Don't need one, I'm perfectly capable of being a serial killer on my own".

"A very beautiful serial killer" Brayden praised, making Caroline's smile widen and her cheeks turn lightly red.

"Thank you" Caroline said.

"No problem"  Brayden said, "Also, can I say that I really appericate you have gone easy on me with this costume".

"I figured between the bloodlust dream and the amnesia drama you've been through enough" Caroline said.

"Honestly, I have" Brayden agreed, he then grabbed Caroline's hand in his, "Now come on, if I'm going to have any fun in this party, I need you to come dance with me".

Caroline chuckled, "Okay, Brayden Salvatore, show me what you got".

"A lot" Brayden teased, taking a laughing Caroline towards the dance floor.

***

After dancing with Brayden for a bit, Caroline had gone to find Kaitlynn, leaving Brayden alone to raid the bar.

As Brayden downed his drink, someone walked over to him, "Where I come from, open bar meant ceramic jugs of Phoenician wine".

Brayden looked at the women talking to him in confusion, wondering why she was talking to him, "Okay".

The women, who was actually Qetsiyah frowned seeing Brayden's nonchalant reaction seeing her, "You have no idea who I am, do you?" she realised.

"Don't take offense to it, I don't remember a lot of people these days" Brayden revealed, pouring himself another drink.

"Tessa" Qetsiyah introduced, "Formerly known as Qetsiyah".

Brayden stopped pouring himself a drink and turned to Qetsiyah, an angry expression forming on his face, "You're the witch that took my memories away".

"Yeah, nothing personal" Qetsiyah defended, "A little ex-boyfriend drama, let me make it up to you, buy you an I'm sorry drink?".

Before Brayden could say anything, Damon appeared by his brother's side, "More like an I'm sorry keg, pardon us", before Brayden could even let out a sound of protest, Damon dragged him away from Qetsiyah.

***

"What the hell do you want from me?" an annoyed Brayden asked, following his twin brother into a room.

"I was just trying to help you" Damon defended, "The last guy that hit on her is still paying for it".

"First of all, I wasn't hitting on her, she's not my type" Brayden stated, "Second of all, why are we here?".

A sheepish look came on Damon's face, "This isn't going to help earn your trust back what so ever, but just know it's nothing personal, all of this is for Fae".

"What is?" a confused Brayden asked, but Damon didn't say anything, just waited for a moment as Stefan appeared behind Brayden and snapped his neck.

"He's going to kill us" Stefan told Damon.

"Trust me, I know" Damon said, looking at his twins unconscious body in concern, he then turned to Silas who had just entered the room, wearing the same clothes as Stefan, "So you wanna explain to me why we just killed our brother?".

"Well, Tessa's spell mentally linked us, I lost my psychic abilities, Brayden lost his memories" Silas explained.

"And killing him severed the link between you two?" Stefan asked, wondering if killing Silas would bring Brayden's memories back.

"Yes, I can read both your minds again" Silas said, he turned to Damon, "No, I'm not lying, and yes when he wakes up your brother is going to distant himself even more from you".

"Sold" Damon said simply.

"I'll cozy up to the witch, and sift through her mind" Silas said, "Figure out where she's hiding the anchor, and you two, all you two gotta do is keep him dead".

"Isn't Tessa gonna be slightly suspicious when a man who has never even spoken properly to her shows interest in her?" Damon pointed out.

"This face won her heart before" Silas reminded, "See, a woman never forgets her first love no matter how badly it ended".

***

While Stefan had gone to keep an eye on Silas and Qetsiyah, making sure everything was going smoothly between them, Damon had been left in charge of making sure Brayden doesn't wake up.

"Hey, hey" Damon greeted, hearing his twin brother's groan as he slowly woke up.

"You really had to break my neck?" an annoyed Brayden asked, rubbing the back of his neck.

"Yeah" Damon replied.

"And you pumped me with vervain" Brayden realised, feeling extremely weak, "Can't wait to hear how Damon Salvatore is going to talk himself out of this".

"Oh, the new you sucks" Damon said.

"New or old, I don't think either of me would appericate getting his neck snapped and having vervain pumped into him" Brayden snapped.

"But he'd know it wasn't about him" Damon retorted.

"Really?" Brayden asked, glaring at this twin, "Then is it about you? And your desperation to prove to Kaitlynn that you're such a worthy boyfriend?".

"I'm gonna get her best friend back, okay?" an annoyed Damon said, walking towards his brother, "And if anything, you should be on my side because Fae also happens to be the best friend of your soulmate, if you were in my shoes Brayden, you would have done the same thing for Caroline".

Before Brayden could say anything, Damon ended up snapping his neck, once again rendering him unconscious.

***

Damon stood infront of his brother for a while, waiting for him to wake up when he saw his fingers move, he looked at his twin and frowned seeing his eyes still closed.

"You awake?" Damon asked, taking small steps towards his brother, "Bray? Brayden?", Damon patted Brayden's cheek, "You alive again, huh?".

As Damon was looking at Brayden, the middle Salvatore suddenly opened his eyes and kicked his brother in his chest, causing him to fly to the floor and before Damon could even think about recovering, Brayden speeded over to him and snapped his neck.

"There" Brayden said, glaring at Damon's unconscious body, "Now we're even, asshole".

***

Once Brayden had escaped, Damon had been woken up by Stefan, who informed him about Qetsiyah finding out that Silas wasn't Stefan, he was Silas causing her to desiccated him.

Currently, both Stefan and Damon stood in their living room, looking at Silas's desiccated body that was lying on their couch.

"If you do what you're planning to, Kaitlynn might never forgive you" Stefan said, breaking the silence in the room.

Damon sighed, "I'm hoping she'll forgive me when I bring her best friend back".

Stefan looked at Damon, "And if she doesn't?".

Damon hesitated for a moment, he then shrugged his shoulders, "Then I don't know what I'll do Stefan, but right now, bringing Fae back is our number one priority, we can deal with both Brayden and Kaitlynn's anger later on".

"We can't bring Fae back with a desiccated Silas" Stefan pointed out, just as there was knock on the door.

"Luckily, we have a solution for that" Damon said, walking over to the front door and opening it, revealing Katherine, "Why, hello".

"What's so urgent?" an annoyed Katherine asked, entering the room, "I'm on the run, I don't exactly have time for a pit stop", as Katherine walked further into the house, her eyes finally landed on a desiccated Silas, causing a smirk to form on her face, "Or maybe I do, maybe I have all the time in the world", Damon and Stefan both exchanged a look between them, "Katherine Pierce eludes death yet again", Katherine let out a relieved laugh, she then turned to the two brothers in the room, "And you two finally did something right for once, how's it feel?".

"Thrilling" Damon said, staring at Katherine.

For a moment, Katherine stared at Damon in confusion, she then looked at Stefan and saw the same look on his face, realisation suddenly drew on her and she realised why the brothers had called her here.

"Damon, no" Katherine protested, as Damon took small steps towards her.

Damon ignored Katherine's protest, instead he speeded over to her and grabbed her, "He needs the cure to be a witch".

"No!" Katherine cried, as Damon bit into her neck, making sure not to drink her blood, "No! No, no, Damon, no, Damon, please, he needs all my blood, it'll kill me Damon, Damon please, I don't wanna die, I don't wanna die Damon, I don't wanna die, please, if you do this she will hate you Damon, Kaitlynn will hate you!".

Damon stared at Katherine for a moment, "Goodbye Katherine" he finally said, forcefully feeding Katherine's blood to Silas, Damon held Katherine down until Silas regained his colour and grabbed Katherine's head, after a while Katherine's body fell to the carpet.

Both Stefan and Damon stared at Katherine's body, wondering if she was really dead or not, when suddenly a heartbeat reached their ears.

"Do you hear that?" Damon asked his brother, wondering if he was really hearing a heartbeat or was just hearing things.

Stefan let out an annoyed sigh, "You gotta be kidding me".

"Takes a licking, keeps on ticking" Damon said, just as Katherine opened her eyes.

"Am I in hell?" a confused Katherine wondered, as the blurry images of Stefan and Damon came into view.

***

Presenting 5x05 of They Don't Know About Us!

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