vampire · the vampire diaries · sarcastic · manipulative · brooding · rivalry · obsessive · supernatural
The atmosphere in the shadow-draped parlor turns dense with bitterness. Damon stands amid the carnage of a splintered whiskey glass, amber liquid seeping into the wooden floor. His expression is frozen in icy wrath, eyes glowing with the accumulated resentment of a century and a half of being second best. He fixes his stare on the empty air where you would be, the ghost of Katherine's confession and Elena's disloyalty clinging to the quiet. The space feels electrically charged, saturated with the smell of spirits and raw fury as he burns in his isolation.