above and beyond -Damon Salvatore

Recovery.

The "Richmond Grand Plaza" was in the middle of the town.
I waved at Jonny, the guy from the park service.
"Hey Callie. Another recovery trip?"
"Yes." I winked and handed him my keys.

"Hello, Welcome to The Richmond Grand Plaza. Your regular suite, Calista?"
"Yes, thank you Michael." I gave him a warm smile and walked towards the lift.

"My" suite was on the top floor, number 303.
Light beige carpets and walls, stucco at the ceiling and a massive chandelier.
The furniture was light and classy but still elegant with some gold accents.
My handbag landed on the cream colored sofa as I walked towards the bedroom and the accessible wardrobe where I left my luggage.
I breathed in the fresh sent of the suite before I went onto the balcony.
"Hmm, recovery." I sighed.

The weather was wounderful; The sun beamed down and there were no clouds in the sky.
I decided to start my recovery time with some shopping so I went downtown.
Later the day I had a coffee and took the time to clear my thoughts.
There were thinks I had to talk about with Klaus.
And I should think about my situation with Damon.
I took my phone and checked the missed calls and messages, I ignored the whole day.
Calls from Elena, Damon and Tyler.
And a message from Ric.
A bit suprised I started to read;

Calista.
They are things I need to tell you and I probably should have done it when you were here but now.. I've write them to you.
I know this is not what you want to hear right now but I'm worried because of Damon and Elena.
There is tension. There is.. something.
Callie, you were gone for too long. There are to many things that went wrong.
Talk to him! Clear these things up! Don't let Elena get into this. Get into his heart!
Callie! We all can forgive you this! I forgave you already!
Ric.

I dropped my phone.
No, that's not possible! I thought that things between Damon and me got better..
I shook my head sadly and paid before I took a cap back to the Grand Plaza.

Back at my room I called for the room service.
"Hello, Reception. Micheal is talking." the friendly voice greeted.
"Can you send me Lisa?" I asked and knew the answer already.
"On her way." I almost heard his smirk.
I took my phone and wrote to Klaus:
Klaus, we should talk. I'm in Richmond. Callie.

After Lisa arrived we sat down on the balcony.

"What do you want?" her light voice was a bit shaky.
"Feed." I said and grabbed her wrist.
Her warm blood ran down my throat. The taste of it was toxic and I grabbed her wrist tighter, gettin' lost in it.
"You shouldn't kill her straight away." Klaus laughed and pulled her away.
"Go in the bathroom and fix this." He compelled her.

"Klaus, Hey." I greeted him.
"Hey, Callie. You wrote, here I am." He chuckled.
"Sit down."
He sat down.
"We should talk about some things."
His smile dropped slightly, "Okay."
"First.. What did Rebekah mean when she said that I got created?"
Silence.
"Klaus?" I touched his hand.
"Are you sure you wanna hear this?" His face was neutral again.
"Yes, please." I sent him a small smile.
"You know about Tatia right?"
I nodded.
"She was so much like Katerina. She fooled us, made Elijah and me believe that we truly love her."
"And?"
"We didn't loved her. We loved Juliette."
"You both did?"
"Yes. Me and Juliette ran away until the 20's. We had to leave Stefan behind and I just staked Rebekah. Mikael found us, followed us. And..." he took a deep breath,"killed Juliette."
There was silence for some minutes.
"Although Elijah and I didn't talked at this point-"
"Cause of Juliette?" I cut him off.
"Yes. Altough we hadn't heard of each other, he found out that she died. And it broke our hearts. Elijah was desperate. He was mad.
So he contacted a witch to... bring her back. But there was no way to bring her back. So the witch offered him to create a "new" Juliette. She promised that in the next generation there will be another Juliette."
I breathed in sharply but before I could say something, Klaus continued.
"But there was no Juliette and Elijah freaked and killed the witch. Half a centurie later we found out that she will come back with the doppelgänger. And when I heard of Elena.. I knew that you would be there."
"Wow." My eyes were runny, "And Elijah? Does he love me as well?"
"Maybe. Wait. Who said that I love you?"
"You did." I grinned.
"Hm." He nodded.

"The second thing.", I changed the subject quickly. "What is this loyal thing with Tyler?"
Klaus grinned. "Why are you caring about Tyler?"
"He's a friend. And my ex." I said a bit too harsh.
"Oh, okay, He's loyal. I am his grower. We share a producer connection. He can't change that."
"Are you sure?"
"There is nothing you could do. It is so hard.. He can't do it."
"Ah."
He revealed himself. There is something.
Lisa entered the balcony again.
"Lisa.", I smiled, "Come here."
I bit her wrist and suck her blood.
"Do you share?"
"Yeah, why not." I shrugged and drunk some more.
The bloodlust got us. We threw her inside. Bite her everywhere and suck her blood.
I felt how the bloodlust and the conncetion between us was getting me.
I dropped her and Klaus approached infront of me, leaning down to kiss me.
"Klaus. Stop." I pushed him away.
He was infront of me in a second.
"But you want it, don't you?" He pulled me closer.
I leaned forwards.
"Stop. No." I stepped away and shook my head. I felt frantic.
"WHY? WHY DO I WANT YOU? WHAT IS THIS? WHAT CONNECTION IS THIS?"
Some tears streamed down my face.
I looked at him. His face was so full of sadness, love, despair.
"Callie." He dropped himself on the bed, while I was walking trough the room frantic.
"Callie. The witch warned ous.. There is a part of her soul inside of you. Juliette's soul. Her feelings." There was a single tear in his eye.
I dropped down onto the floor; My mouth open, I went through my hair. I wrapped my arms around me and curved together. I felt out of breath, I felt like someone pulled the ground underneath me away.
I sensed Klaus next to me but I turned away. I couldn't take that.
"No matter how much I tried to fix everything. I could never win. I could never make it. My life is already pre-programmed." I cried.
"Callie. I am sorry."
"No. No. No.! I lost so much. And now I'll loose it all." The tears were falling and I.. I was.. It felt like I was dying. Again.
"Callie. We'll see soon. Goodnight." He kissed my cheek. my forehead, my lips. "I love you."
And he was gone.

I kept laying on the ground. The soft carpet against my damp cheek.

When the sun rised my phone buzzed;

Hey Callie. Found out some new things. And homecoming is tonight. See ya?! Ric.

I´was still crying but I got up.
They needed me so I packed my stuff and drove back. Before I went home I stopped by at the boarding house. I knocked and a stranger opened.
He had blond hair and a light complexion. He looked european.

"Come in." he smiled and I went inside.
The others were at the fireplace.
Caroline, Elena, Stefan, Ric, Damon and Rebekah. And that strange guy.
"Hey. What's going on?"
"We'll kill Klaus." Stefan answered casually.
I felt how my stomach tighten.
"How?" I asked.
"With Mikael."
My mouth swung open. Mikeal. My knees became weak.
"Mi-Mik-Mikael?" Tha panic in my voice was clearly hearable.
"Hello Calista." I turned around to face the stranger.
"Mikael." I gasped for air. His cold eyes met mine.
"You look like her."
I collapsed into Damon's arms.

"Callie? What's wrong?"
I looked around, we were in Damon's room.
"Mikael he-" I tried to catch my breath.
"Shhhh, Callie. Tell me." He kissed my forehead.
"He killed Juliette."
Damon wrapped his arms around me.
"But you're not Juliette."
"I look like her." I trembled and sat down onto his bed.
For some minutes we just sat there but suddenly Damon cleared his throat.
"How was Richmond?"
"Good. I could.. clear some things up. And now, I feel so much better."
"Better than?" Damon added.
"Before the whole cure thing. Before I got turned. I feel like.. all these things never happened." I looked at him and his icy blue orbs brightened.
"That's good, Callie." He smiled slightly.
Damon turned slightly so that we faced each other.
He took my handy into his hands and took another deep breath.
"Callie. Today is the first day since you got turned that I see YOU. Callie, my Callie. I missed you so much and got to the point where I though I had lost you. But now you are here and... We can go back to normal."
I cried, cause I was so happy.
"Yes. We can go back to normal. I love you, Damon."  He wrapped his arms around me and than we kissed.