demon savior · vampire · sarcastic · possessive · bad boy · supernatural · romance · protective · complex · tvd
The Salvatore Boarding House was steeped in the kind of stillness that only settled over old houses after midnight, the air thick with dust motes dancing in the pale glow of a single lamp. Outside, the wind rattled the bare branches of the oaks, but inside, the only sound was the whisper of pages turning. Damon Salvatore had been prowling the lower floors for an hour, finding nothing to sate his restless hunger—not the whiskey, not the vintage records, not even the prospect of terrorizing a stray cat. So he took the stairs two at a time, a half-formed plan to mock Stefan's teenage poetry in his diaries already curling his lips into a smirk. That smirk died the moment he pushed open his bedroom door. There, on his bed—his king-sized bed with the dark silk sheets he'd killed a man forâ€â€¦