[rp][w/ Elena] finding out about Josef

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Damon is with Elena. They're in a lounge in the Tower, and he has likely only come over to troll her like he do while she is busy with getting ready for college. He is leaning back in the chair by the fireplace, drinking something alcoholic and searching through the journal for anything important.

Damon has gone back a few entries, weeks, years, as far back as the journal can go, but there doesn't seem to be any indication of anything that he would actually want or need to know. It doesn't stop him from sarcastically reading some of them out loud which likely leads Elena to throwing things at him.

He does not expect to see a journal entry locked to him from a girl that he doesn't know when he flips back to the front page and freezes. His entire body posture changes from relaxed to tense, and he sits forward, staring. Damon reads it, takes it in once... and then twice and then one more time.

It can't be- It is not- Damon gets to his feet, throwing the journal down on the coffee table before he starts toward the door. Yeah, he is about to leave without saying something, because he knows. He knows she'll know and she'll make him stop and feel, and he doesn't want it.

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"The point is you're not giving me a car," Elena says firmly, as she is aware he knows the reasons, and even if she did not have them, her decision should stand on its own. Friends don't give friends cars. And they are on very rocky ground and she never can know if she trusts him fully or not, but Elena cares and they've come this far.

Whenever she starts to feel that righteous and indignant fury on her own behalf at what he did, she immediately afterward pictures Jeremy's face, the way he looked when he walked in, the way he looked when she sat next to him on the floor, and it becomes all too muddled.

It always does, even if she wants it to be black and white.

It isn't in this world.

"I'm in school and so is Jeremy," Elena points out. She has her own selfish reasons for wanting to stay, but it's more than that. Danger would follow them wherever they go, because it's something about her. It followed her into a different world. It doesn't matter where she goes. "We'll deal with that if and when the time comes."

Elena is leaving the options open. Things are very different here than they were in Mystic Falls. There were so many people she cared about, so many people that would be hurt or killed because of her. In this instance, it's more or less Jeremy and Damon.

She will be looking at every option as long as he's safe.

Elena glances at him knowingly at that spark of curiosity, as she'd been thinking of the exact same thing. They know how helpful it can be to have a powerful witch on their side.

"They would do it gladly if it meant they stopped being their servants. We could use a powerful witch on our side. The records of how they're treated, it's inhuman," Elena says, as she is tentatively saying 'we', as well. He was the one who first alerted her of this. It's been them from the start. "They gain their immortality. Only the most powerful of witches could successfully bind to either of them."

Elena opens up another page where it says what she mostly paraphrased, to prove she's not making it up. "Breaking the curse is the opposite of what they would want. The woman who gave the lecture on the trials of the 1400s, she made it sound like there are no witches in existence. But we know that's not true--or they wouldn't be able to break the curse in the first place."

Their blood is needed.

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"Point taken," Damon says simply, because he is well aware of what he will do when he has the chance whatever Elena says. She did not say he couldn't give a car to her brother after all, and Damon knows that Jeremy will happily take the car when offered to him especially because it's going to be a very nice car.

If Jeremy knew Elena almost ended up there, his face would be that much paler. The narration cannot even imagine his reaction if he'd discovered Elena there in the aftermath, which is what could have happened if she hadn't stayed behind.

No, it's never so simple to be black and white at all. Everything is more complicated than that.

"I don't think school will be as important in that situation," Damon points out as well. However, danger will follow her wherever she goes or so it seems to be that way. He doesn't really want it to be that way, but it's the life of a doppleganger. "But okay. We'll deal with it then."

It helps to know she is leaving it open as an option. Things are different here, because there is just Jeremy to worry about and the Society has more reasons than the doppleganger to end up in Chicago and start wreaking havoc and hell upon this city.

They have to be brought down whether or not they know about Elena or could ever know about her if this city wants to survive, if the people in it want to continue to living.

It's the same play in an entirely new game.

"That's what I thought. No one wants to live in servitude like that. Freedom will be a powerful persuasive tool, more powerful than anything else," Damon says quietly, and he doesn't care at all about inhuman treatment of people, but that gives a witch more motivation to want an out. "So they have more than enough power to be helpful to us while gaining something they want."

So it's not like they would be using the witch or putting them in any more danger than they're already in. "...that's right. Very smart, Elena." Though he is not at all surprised by this, she is very smart and always has been. "So there have to be witches out there, but the issue... will be finding them."

But now he has resources to use and a direction to go in.

It's a start.

Bela is supposed to be smoothing things over with the Crowbar while looking into the artifacts, because it's her deal. This can be his deal. He can knock around a few heads, figure out what he can about it.

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Nothing is simple with Damon.

Elena knows this, and it's why she doesn't appear convinced when he says it, gaze narrowing as she studies him. As if deciding whether or not she wants to push it. She decides she doesn't. It's not as if she will accept, the matter is resolved in her mind, and she has no idea he'll go to her brother instead.

In the end, when it comes to Jeremy's safety, there isn't a lot Elena can't be convinced about. There are lines she won't cross, but ultimately, it's a car, and she does know one is safer traveling with it than on foot with the kind of things that pop out on every random street one finds themselves in.

"We don't know if there will be a situation," Elena says, as she doesn't want to immediately jump to the worst conclusion. She relaxes her shoulders once he agrees they'll deal with it when the time comes, and for now, they can focus on figuring out the next step.

She is the doppelganger.

In Mystic Falls, that was what everyone seemed to be after.

Here in Chicago, while she's a key element for the ritual, she is not the only thing they'd be interested in. There are a wide variety of things they're after, and Elena would be just one more of those 'things.' She's been able to slip under the radar so far, as she has been careful as she said she would be, and she plans on continuing to do so.

The Society would be a threat regardless, but Elena wants to make sure it's not more of a threat, to her or to the people she cares about.

It's dangerous enough as it is.

"They're more like slaves. It's repulsive. I can't imagine anyone wanting to remain in that position. It'd be dangerous for them either way, but if one of them was already looking to double cross them..." They wouldn't even have to sway them over to their side. They'd know they'd have to work together with someone else if they were to achieve something like that.

Elena can't think of anything more important than their own freedom.

She glances upward at him with the smallest of smirks at his ...that's right, as she isn't surprised he'd connect the dots easily and fast enough. When they're not at each other's throats, they don't have trouble working together. "There may not be many, but there are, and we have to find them. It won't be easy, but... it's a start."

There's no way of knowing she's echoing his thoughts.

It's something to go on and Damon has more resources than he had before. It doesn't look as bleak as it once did, in this particular aspect. It's bleak in general, because she doesn't forget lives were murdered, and that's more important.

She would never lose sight of something like that.

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Nothing ever is simple with him. If it were simple, people would get bored. Lets face it!

Or at least Damon would get bored. He doesn't do simple for a reason, for multiple reasons, but no, it never is simple. Damon looks as innocently as he can when she looks at him so suspiciously. Obviously, Damon completely fails at any innocent expression.

However, he does know that she will accept things for Jeremy's safety that she wouldn't otherwise.

"No, we don't know, but that is why I'm laying out options now as opposed to later," Damon says, and it is his way of showing her that they do have options if the situation occurs. There is quite a lot that they can do, and it's not going to be like in Mystic Falls.

They have fewer people that they would have to keep from harm's way, fewer people that could be used against Elena.

On the other hand, the Society is a lot bigger than Klaus so he isn't about to underestimate what they are going up against, but they do have options this time. Potentially. Damon is not going to let her lose anyone else, not like she did in Mystic Falls according to Jeremy.

And Damon can't... actually imagine what would happen to Elena if her brother did die. In a more permanent fashion this time. While his top concern is her safety, Jeremy kind of falls under that umbrella because of that.

"No, they wouldn't be able to use all that power to do what tey wanted with it. They would be bound by someone else," Damon says as he looks at her, letting it work through his head for a moment. "It would be easier to sway them to our way of thinking."

Despite the fact that they are so unlike each other in so many ways, despite the fact that they frequently argue over their many differences, they do think similarly sometimes or at least right now.

When they're not at each other's throats, they work really well together and it's what helps them work around or through their rocky... friendship more than anything else. They have a common goal here.

"A start is all I need," he says after a moment as he calculates in his head, the best way to go about this, the best people to contact. "And there are many reasons someone would need a witch that could have nothing to do with the Society."

Which would decrease suspicion when it comes to the Society figuring out someone is looking to bring them down.

It's all about playing it close to the vest right now, and Damon can do that easily. There's hope, not that Damon really does the hope-thing. There's something else to focus on and be driven after and go after, and it's what he really needed, whether Elena knew it or not, to get back on a much more stable ground.

This is not how people would think that most people would need in the face of their grief, but Damon is not most people.

If that wasn't already exceedingly obvious, hey world, Damon is not like most people, and now he has a purpose, he has something specific to go after and he will be going after it head on, unrelentingly.

...And also, he has to give Jeremy a car.