Tiberius Salvatore: The eldest brother

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Tiberius Salvatore walked into the Grill. He walked up to the bar, and ordered a pint of beer and drank it until he finished, then ordered another. He looked around before his gaze fell onto a familiar man. He was taken aback by the sight of his younger brother drinking and laughing with another man by the pool table. He walked over to them. "Damon Salvatore!" His voice boomed at the man.

Damon turned around to see who the voice belonged to, only to see his, or supposed to be, dead brother. "Rio?"
By this time, Tiberius was stood right in front of him. "It's me, Demon."
"But, how? We thought you were dead."
"We? Stefan's alive too? I thought you were both dead. I came to your funerals!"
"Using the word alive loosely, of course. We're vampires. Stefan's alive. Come on, I'll take you to him." Damon said. The other guy cleared his throat.
"Oh, right. Sorry. Rio, this is Alaric. My friend."
"You have a friend? I guess he's not on vervain."
"Funny. I didn't compel him."
"He's right. Weirdly enough." He put a hand out. "Call me Ric."
"Hi, I'm Rio Salvatore. Damon and Stefan's brother."
"Wait what?"
"Come on, Ric. Are you honestly surprised?"
"Yes."

"I'm the eldest child. Katherine forced her blood in me and then killed me, then gave me blood so I had to run. Otherwise my father would have found out and my immortal life would have been short. Besides, I had a promise to keep. So that's how I became a vampire. I heard my brothers were amongst some casualties in the whole vampire tomb war thing."
"We were. Dad shot us while we tried to save Katherine."
"Seriously? Her again? Brother why on Earth would you do that?? I mean, she's a bitch. And you died for her? You're far more idiotic than I thought." Rio exclaimed.
"Well either way, we died, came back to life, got these." Damon wriggled his daylight ring finger.
"Lucky, I was stuck to living in the shadows for, like a year, before I got mine." Rio smiled. "So, are we going to go see Stefano or what?"
"Come on, big brother. I'll take you. Hey Ric, you coming?"
"Nope, I'm good. You boys catch up."

Damon and Rio walked to the Salvatore boarding house where Stefan and Elena were hanging out.
"Littlest brother!" Damon called. "I think it's about time Elena met all of us Salvatores. Minus papa and mama Salvatore, of course."
"What are you on about Damon?" Stefan walked up to his brother. Suddenly Rio rushed into the house.
"Surely you haven't forgotten me already, little Stefano."
"Tiberius?" Stefan was pleasantly surprised.
"The one and only, of course. And how many times am I to tell you it's Rio?" Elena walked over not understanding what the commotion was about.
"Um hi?" She gave a small wave. "I'm Elena."
"Elena?" Rio was pissed. His brother started dating a carbon copy of his deluded ex? "I'm Rio Salvatore. Please excuse what I'm about to do."
And he snapped Stefan's neck. Elena gave a little gasp, her hand finding way to her mouth. She surged forward but Rio stopped her. "He'll wake up soon. And he'll be fine. I thought that would be more effective than a punch."
"Woah, Rio. Seriously? You can't possibly be that pissed."
"Damon. I swear, I would snap your neck too, but at least you're not making the same mistakes all over again" He glared at Elena.
"I stand corrected." Damon raised his hands, in a surrendering gesture.
"Now, do you want to explain why Stefan is dating the doppelganger who looks exactly like Katherine?"
"He's fallen in love. She's different. She's..." Damon looked at Elena scrunching his nose, "good. Compassionate. All things rainbow and unicorns."
"Seriously?" Rio had a look of disgust on his face. "So the fact that she looks exactly like the bitch who ruined our lives has nothing to do with it?"
"Yeah, well, Elena actually is different. I mean she can be annoying at times but she still cares."
"So he dates the girl who is a carbon copy of the woman who dated you and Stefan simultaneously. Besides. They're related. How does that work? I mean he dated her great by something grandma. How is that not a deal breaker? Never mind. I don't want to know. Did he go mad?"
"Well he turned into Mr Ripper. Then came back. He was on and off for a while, and is now boring and good."
"Oh Stefan. I am definitely going to punch him when he wakes up. And I hope he has cramps from being dead on the floor."
"Come on big brother, surely killing him was enough?"
"He is dating the doppelganger of the woman who strung both of you along, and hated me because I didn't fall for her and then slept with both of you different times during the same night every night, faked her death and you both willingly died for her, by the way, and turned me into a vampire for well long story finding her weakness. She's the reason you both died. The reason I died. Besides there is no way you and Stefan were pals for the last century and a half knowing the same woman dated you both. She didn't even date you. She played you. So yeah, if little brother dear is stupid enough to make the same mistakes, I'm going to show him how I feel. Besides he'll heal."
"First off Katherine was a bitch. Elena isn't."
"You didn't think Katherine was a bitch then."
"Yeah well, get to know Elena for a minute. She's nauseatingly pure."
"Thanks, but I'll pass."
"Elena, you want a lift home?"
"No thanks. I'll walk it."
"You were just kidnapped and offered up as dog meat not long ago to Elijah." Elena just shrugged and walked out.

"Elijah Mikaelson? One of the originals?"
"You know him?" Damon asked shocked.
"Of course. Who do you think told them Katherine was in Mystic Falls back in 1864? Why do you think Katherine faked her death? To get away from them. Besides, Elijah's cool. He's like all for family and doesn't do fun much, but under all that he's not bad."
"He's dead. Sorry, bout that." Damon didn't sound very sorry
"Dead?"
"Yeah, well you know. Elena got kidnapped to be handed over to him he was gonna leave with her, so you know, I staked him."
"With what? Wood?"
"Yeah, some random makeshift stake. Why?"
"Meh, never mind. Just wanted to know how my friend died. Ah well, RIP, I guess." Rio said casually, shrugging it off. He turned to look around the house, smirking at his brother's mistaken belief. "But of course, it was for Elena. You make a super dangerous enemy from his family just for her. Nothing like Katherine, my ass."
"About his family. What do you know?"
"Let's see. There's Kol and Finn who are, lets just say not in the picture. There's Rebekah, also not in the picture right now. She's a total diva. Klaus, total drama queen, and he probably wants to kill Elena."
"Why?"
"Long story. Actually, they've only told me bits and pieces. I'm close, but they don't trust anyone with that."
"Okay. Weaknesses? How do we kill them?"
"Damon! We're not killing them. They, however diabolical, are my friends and to be frank, I don't like Elena. I don't care for her."
"Wow, I never took you to be judgemental."
"I'm a vampire, I've lived a century and a half. I don't really give a damn. Besides, it's pretty hard not to be judgemental, when she's got both you and Stefan fawning over her... just like Katherine."
"Rio, brother. I sympathise, but she's nothing like Katherine." Damon sounded exasperated. Stefan groaned, waking up.
"What the hell?"
"Littlest brother, say hello to big brother who's hatred for Katherine overshadows his sight of Elena." Rio walked over to Stefan and punched him a few times.
"Why are you so hostile, Rio?"
"Yeah well, any happy brotherly reunion fell out of the window when I met your girlfriend. What is wrong with you Stefano?"
"Okay. I am not discussing this with you. So the three of us are going to go to the Grill and having a drink and pretend like we haven't not seen each other in a century and a half."
"Sure brother, why not? I'll just forget that you're in love with the girl who ruined all of our lives's twin."
"Great, let's go!" Stefan replied, ignoring the obvious sarcasm in Tiberius's tone.