desiderium ad amissam (longing for the lost one ft . TVD)

Chapter: 1- "Damon"

"80 years, it has been 80 years since I last saw him. My brother, Damon, I haven't seen him since the 1940s when I left for the war. I have been looking for 80 years now. I...I don't want to think that...no he has to be somewhere out there...I will find him...I have to find him."

Stefan sighed as he wrote his journal entry; he was beginning to lose hope that he would ever see his brother again. Lexie had been helping him all these years to find Damon. Two years ago, she visited Mystic falls to celebrate his birthday. She explained to him that she had hit another dead end and warned him about some secret organization hunting supernaturals, which she had found during her search. She also explained there is a possibility that, those people may have killed Damon, but quickly reassured him that might not be the case. Stefan was still counting on Lexie for any leads that would prove his brother's whereabouts or any clue that Damon was still alive.

Stefan, finally had the time to think about his brother again after two stressful years protecting and loving, one and only Elena Gilbert. The girl Stefan saved from the accident, a doppelganger of his former love, Katherine Pierce. Last year was the most stressful for Stefan when he had to face, not one but two original vampires alone and add Katherine to top his cake of helplessness and despair, he desperately wished Damon to be there for him at that moment. Stefan desperately wished for Damon to be okay, alive somewhere, come back, he told himself that he would ask Damon for forgiveness and wished Damon would come for him. Damon never came, Stefan hated him, cursed him for abandoning him, most of all he missed him terribly. After, their debacle with Klaus, Stefan finally had room to breathe, Elena was alive and he had made quite a few friends. But Stefan felt he could never feel the void that his brother left him, it was bearable most days but sometimes he just tends to get wasted and look through only a handful of pictures of him and Damon.

He left a message for Lexie asking for any updates and left to meet his friends who had all gathered at the Salvatore Boarding house this weekend. As he came downstairs, he saw his uncle Zach, his niece Sarah talking with Elena, the love of his love and a shy Jeremy, who was not so subtly staring at Sarah. He could hear Bonnie and Gale talking in the kitchen. Matt and Caroline were nowhere to be seen. Tyler seemed to be playing ball with Joseph, Stefan's nephew in the garden. As Stefan saw them play, he was again reminded of his brother, back when they used to play in the garden in the original Salvatore estate, throwing ball at each other, carefree and happy to be in one another's company. He remembers how Damon had taught him how to fight and broke his nose accidentally. Stefan shook his head, feeling nostalgic, a small smile on his face as he took a seat beside Elena, her face lit up just seeing him as she wrapped her hand around his. They continued to talk, it was getting late and dark, but Caroline and Matt were yet to show up, the older vampire got worried as the couple of baby vamps didn't show.

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In the forest clearing, two figures collapsed on the ground where they were restrained with heavy metal cuffs. The blonde couple unconscious from the vervain injected in their system, were securely loaded in the black cargo van by a brunette and his friend looked through the stuff that they had collected from their pockets.

"say, Damon, why can't you help me load these guys in while you're at it", the brunette complained to his friend in his exotic and rich British accent.

The incredibly handsome man, pushed his midnight black hair fringes from his forehead and sighed. His ice blue eyes locked with his partner's chestnut ones, an annoyed expression in place.

"quit whining Enzo, we still have two more targets to secure" the raventte deadpanned his exceptionally good looking partner.

"Right" Enzo said as he finished loading the two baby vamps according to their info into the van. Enzo peered at his friend's hand seeing as his ethereal looking partner gracefully moved his fingers across the screen of his phone, sending a message to get two other supernatural beings in the vicinity.