i tried to take the road less traveled by but nothing seems to work the first few times

[unforgivably]

Who: Damon Salvatore, YOU?
Where: Around.
When: This Week.
What: With his daylight ring in possession, Damon gets a lay of the business he owns? With added context from home.
Warnings: Damon is a walking warning, but other than that, nothing other than the usual territory that comes with a Salvatore. *Season 7 spoilers, however, also counts as a warning within, they're may be closed logs underneath as well

S & D Automotive

[ Stefan told him about their business. He's yet to see it for himself. He dropped by mid-evening the week before, but this is the first day Monday he's stepped into work. Not to mention, the cars he and Stefan discovered, finally being able to be driven. He doesn't hate his car. He misses his old one. But, that one exploded driving into the Mystic Grill.

His fingers grip the steering wheel as that notion forms.

Something clicks into place mid-day Monday. It's as if Damon's flown blind for two weeks (figuratively speaking). The kernels of information he'd remembered had kept him alive and sated, but his suspicions hadn't wavered. Memories line themselves up like a movie playing in his mind. Elena had described to him once how it felt in transition, watching scenes play out before you, and Damon wonders if this isn't unlike that. Wayward Pines is no Mystic Falls (he's sure now it's bigger in infrastructure), so they don't play out in front of him, but they do play. At first, fragments slide into place. Elena. Soon, whole scenes rush at him, starting with what he remembered from before waking up in that hospital.

Elena's alive.

He keeps driving, slowly going in circles around town tossing aside familiar feelings and memories of the town he's currently stuck in, matching them up to what he remembers, to Katherine. To Bonnie. To those months he'd spent in 1994 now with context, and fuck if he doesn't hate Kai.

Everything circles back to Elena.

As for Damon, he circles back to the garage. He exits his car and hoofs it to the garage the Salvatore brothers own. You may catch him going through files, checking the computer, and digging around in back for parts if you drop by. Everything is too vivid, too specific. Stefan and him fix cars? No, this is someone's idea of a painted trick. He's done this before. Hell, he's pulled this before. Mostly out of a sense of compassion.

He takes a few minutes on a chair inspecting one of the cameras above his desk, but he doesn't rip it down. He just steps back down and smiles at it, giving a wave. He's got your number, Wayward Pines.

Or, so he thinks anyway.

If you haven't caught him combing through their records or inspecting cameras, you may have caught him with a legal pad in hand writing down facts. Specifically, his and Stefan's sordid history. That's right, he's even broken into his Wayward Pines bourbon stash, jotting down everything he thinks he can remember. This is what's real. Every time he reaches the bottom of the page, he flips it back, moving to the next.

Elena's alive seems to sustain him. ]

Comments

[theophilia]

[Pucci just. Stares, waiting for this line of commentary to end.]

The position of my personal lord and savior is incredibly occupied. Also, the opposite of hot is cold. Just for future reference.

[No one here is not a bitch. He glances at the dark entrance again, then shrugged.]

There never was a mood. But I'm curious about this now. We might as well.

[unforgivably]

Well. You're going to be a fun date. Think they serve alcohol at this place?

[ Damon agrees, at least. ]

Then. [ And so, he goes first, always the one that makes that decision. Stefan would hold the door for the Father, but Damon's mood has soured (unlike Pucci's, apparently), so he opens it wide enough that Pucci can catch the door if he'd like, or if his reflexes are that good. If not, he might get hit with the door.

The hostess stands, asking for their party's reservation. ] Damon Salvatore and -- [ He looks back behind him. He doesn't know this guy's name. ]