Ch.4

We went back to New York where we partied until the mid seventies when Damon started being suspected as the son of Sam serial killer. I personally found it amusing and egged him on about it but then Lexi showed up and tried talking him down from some imaginary ledge.

She looked at me and asked. "Do I know you?"

I shook my head. "No, but if I knew you before my wives I'd have fucked us both crippled."

I tossed Damon the bottle of whiskey I'd taken a drought of and he caught it while laughing. Finally he told her. "This is Ryan, I'm sure Stefan's mentioned how he's been keeping me away from the bunny diet, bad influences and all."

Lexi his at me and I gave her a migraine that driver her to her knees before saying. "Try it baby vamp, I can take on a hundred at your strength and not even break a sweat. Now either be civil or piss off because your ruining my buzz and it took two decades to feel this good."

I released her and she was far more tame now. I chuckled. "Play your card right love and I might even make a daylight ring for you."

She became much more friendly then. Damon ordered us shots and I brought out a pound of weed and started rolling blunts. Damon asked. "Isn't that my father's cigar stash you're emptying for those?"

I shrugged. "I thought it was Stefan's. It was in his attic of a room next to that crappy picture of Kathrine."

He winced and I sighed. "You gotta get over that bitch, I mean seriously, I warned both her and Pearl to run and they were dumb enough to stay and get caught. Hell, even Emily got toasted afterwards. Dumb women I tell you."

He looked a bit down so I sighed. "If nothing else we can search again but it'll just be the same results. Stone equals-"

He cut me off and I stopped before lighting up and telling Will behind the counter. "Tequila chasers Will, leave the bottle. "

I handed Damon a blunt before offering Lexi one. "It's home grown and organic."

Damon snorted as he took a big hit and broke into a coughing fit of laughter. I lit my own while Lexi asked Damon. "What's so funny?"

He pointed at me. "This dude, he grows the stuff literally in seconds and he event sent a million pounds of it to the president of the United States."

I shrugged. "Dick bags needed to lighten up. I grew this shit before America was around why the fuck would I stop now? Prohibition my ass."

Damon continued his laughter while I did my best to let the feeling all wash over me. After that Damon spent the night trying his damndest to get me drunk and Lexi out of her clothes. Both succeeded with varying degrees. Lexi kept mentioning Kathrine and Damon got annoyed and wondered off for a bit while we were playing strip poker in the back with some college coeds that frequent the bar.

Every so often Lexi would move closer to me slowly while I got drunker as it seemed. When Damon came back with the coeds already nude and with bite marks I downed the last of the tequila and sat on the couch with a joint in my mouth I wasn't really smoking even though it was lit.

I sort of blacked out but heard an interesting movie going on in the background. At first I thought it was Damon having his way with the coeds but a blurry vision of Lexi naked and on me came to mind. I must've been dreaming as I passed out.

I woke up bare assed on the roof of the building the bar was in with Lexi laying naked on my chest. I stilled as panic and dread hit me like a ton of bricks and all I could think each time I thought to leave her there was 'mine' and 'mate'.

Those thoughts hit me like a cold shower as I sobered up real quick. I felt a shiver as I realized I was still locked inside her and an unconscious orgasm slammed into me full force. She moaned and bit into my chest where I noticed there were many such bites.

I pulled out of her with a squelching sound and she looked up to me muttering. "Finally letting a girl have some rest?"

A shudder ran through me and I told her. "We've a serious problem."

She opened her eyes again and asked. "What? The fact that you've ruined me for other men or that I'm a vampire and I'm still not sure what you are?"

I shoved uncomfortably. "How about the fact that I'm married and the more pressing problem is that the room access door locks automatically and the suns about to rise."

Her eyes shot open as she stood up wobbly before nearly falling as her legs gave out. I caught her and helped her find her clothes before the sun hit the building. I was still naked as my clothes weren't anywhere in sight and she was hiding in the very little shadow in the roof.

Thinking to myself, one problem at a time, I walked over to her still freaked form and asked her. "Do you trust me?"

She looked me up and down before saying. "I barely know you. Hell I had to find out from Damon that the women you're supposedly married to aren't even in this dimension."

I scratched the back of my head before sighing. "Then do you trust that I won't let you die until I've explained myself at least?"

She stilled before nodding. I took her hands and told her. "Don't let go of my hands on?"

She nodded and I closed my eyes and did a very powerful barrier spell over ourselves. I pulled backwards as I opened my eyes and dragged her into the sun. At first she was alarmed until she found it didn't burn. I pulled her closer saying. "It's a barrier spell. I can keep it around us until we get down. Give me a second and I'll open the door."

I focused and did several unlocking spells on the damn thing as it burst open we headed inside. I found my clothes on the couch downstairs in the back room and put them on to Damon's clapping hands. I snorted. "Bite me."

He acted all hurt holding his heart saying. "Ooh your post coital jabs are so strong."

Growling I asked. "How did you manage it?"

He frowned and backed away giving himself away as the culprit. "I don't know what you're talking about. What witchy horny drugs were you on?"

I growled. "Not funny jackass. If you'd been with Kathrine still and she'd caught you-"

He held up a finger. "I'm gonna stop you right there. One, I'm not with Kathrine as you two pointed out on more than one occasion last night. Two you haven't even been laid in this body you have now, essentially you were a virgin all over again, and three, don't you already have three wives, what's one more . Besides, who even knows if they're still alive?"

I looked at him helplessly before walking over and punching him in the gut and sending him through the broken down wall while hyperventilating. I grabbed the sides of my head trying to deny the possibilities. I slammed my head repeatedly into the wall bringing the rest of it down then the floor until something stopped me.

I still tried until I couldn't move any more. Turning I saw both Lexi and Damon working together to keep me in a chokehold until Damon accidentally pulled to hard and snapped my neck. I blacked out and woke up a few hours later outside in the shade of some buildings with Lexi holding me.

My head was foggy and throbbing and I couldn't remember getting down off the roof with her. I moved and she released me asking. "Are we good?"

I nodded. "What happened? How did we get off the roof?"

She looked at me weirdly before saying. "You has a massive panic attack and brought the whole building down. Damon and I barely got you out in time. Will was pissed till we said it was you that did it then he shut up and said you owed him a new building when you wake up."

I slurred to her. "Sssnot a problem. I'll just give him the place on fifty first. It was time for an upgrade anyway."

I went to stand but she stopped me saying. "You may be concussed. You were slamming your head pretty hard into the wall till your magic went all wonky and caved in the place around us."

I felt dizzy but I'd be fine. I told her as much saying. "I'll heal, perk of being what I am."

I couldn't stop touching her as she asked. "And that is?"

I shrugged weakly. "A cluster fuck. Vampire, werewolf, witch, god, demon. You name it and there's probably pieces of it inside me."

She stilled again before it all hit her while I simply curled up in her arms again. My nose and ears were bleeding black but it was probably just a backlash of whatever forgetting spell I'd attempted that had gone horribly wrong.

I could feel the turmoil inside her when she asked. "How? What no, just how?"

I shrugged and touched her head, she was mate and mates had right to memory sharing. I showed her all I was from my first life and on. When she finished taking it all in I helped her by leaving the information to build a mind space inside her head.

While she thought on that Damon came over and I sat up slowly. " Remind me to never give you witchy drugs again. You took out the building and half the block behind it. All the buildings were too old and not up to code to stand up to hurricane Ryan. You two done cuddling because in a few minutes when the dust settles the sun will be right on us."

I growled at the thought of loosing Lexi before saying. "Bring the car around. I don't think I can get far as I am. I might even be violently ill. Activate the special wards I showed you."

He nodded and left before coming back in a black sixty seven Chevy mustang with tinted windows that were necro-tempered meaning I'd used holy oil mixed with devils root to burn and scorch it. It protected vampires from the nasty sun. The special wards were healing ones that I'd installed if ever we needed them bad enough.

Lexi helped me into the back seat as Damon played chauffeur. "Where to hoss?"

I snorted before groaning. "Head to Chicago and call Will, tell him fifty first is his for the pain and suffering."

I groaned and tried my best not to throw up blood. I barely managed it while Damon asked. "Not glory's then?"

I shook my head. "Not the way I'm feeling. She'd kill me dead or try to so she could tap into my power. I'm not exactly ready to play voodoo doll to her high priestess."

He grimaced and agreed so we headed to Chicago. When we arrived he buggered off for a few years after seeing me healed up. Lexi stayed though and I made her a daylight ring along with several protection amulets and wards on her clothes. I then took the time to get her tatted up with glow in the dark ink as she insisted.

I offered invisible ink but she wanted to see the enochian sigils sometimes. We of course moved past formalities as she knew what she wanted now that she'd experienced it with me. I was in no place to deny her no matter what my soul said.

Our first time together after that was even more fierce as I was consciously participating now. We broke several pieces of furniture as I really did my best to fulfill my promise to make us both cripple. I'd nearly succeeded after the first six months of constant sex and her feeding on me.

There wasn't an inch of the house we hadn't fucked on including the ceiling. Finally she was forced to call a stop after the second year. We hadn't actually been out of the apartment since we'd arrived and she wanted fresh air. I showed her the balcony then while I was hugging her she ground her ass into me and it was on again.

In the blink of an eye another seven years passed as we barely made it to the front door to get pizza and tequila that was delivered via compelled currier. With this new breed of vampire emotions were heightened along with all other senses and I found myself unable to get more than teen feet away from her before I had to be inside her again.

She wasn't much better than I as she practically lead me around by the dick, most of the time literally. We'd been mating nonstop fro almost a decade now when Damon came in the front door to see her riding me on the ceiling.

I growled as my instincts didn't like another male near my female while she was in the mood for sex. He put a hand over his eyes saying. "Jesus you two, have you even left the apartment? It smells of sex so much I thought you were screwing the whole playboy catalogue in here from the road."

I growled as Lexi slid off of me and I reversed the spell so we were on the floor instead. She headed to the bedroom for clothes as she hadn't actually needed to wear any for nearly a decade.

I stood up as the mood was officially dead. With a thought I did a cleansing spell on me and the entire house. I reached deep to get out the smells we'd left their after repeated use. I summoned some clothes and put them on before saying. "Damon, it's good to see you again. Where did you go?"

He looked again when I had my pants on. "College, Mystic Falls, Detroit, Cali, Miami for a bit and back to College again."

I sighed. "Didn't happen to pick up any knowledge other than how to strip a group of coeds in under a minute did you?"

He snorted. "Please, I'm down to ten seconds and I can rest for the last five a to let their bras pop off at the last second."

I shrugged. "That a nice then?"

He smiled genuinely. "Actually this isn't so much about me but more about Stefan."

Lexi came out in my shirt and I could tell nothing else. "You say Stefan? Is he here?"

I growled and she looked at me before saying. "Hush. It's not the same and you know it. He's a friend."

I shook my head. "Not that, my shirt's to short for you to wear as a dress and you're flashing him."

Damon smiled wickedly. "Not that I'm complaining. By all means, don't get dressed on my account."

She was gone in a hurry saying as she raced of. "If I don't he'll probably gouge our your eyes and castrate you!"

Damon looked caught between a rock and a hard place as I didn't deny it. She came back out a minute later with actual clothes on saying. "And that's my cue, if Stefan's in town it's my turn to take him out and cheer him up."

I grunted and she snorted waving her finger in my face. "You've had enough for now. I'll be back in a year or two."

I sighed finally and told her. "There's a wad of cash and a few accounts in the black box. Use that for your fun but tell him I sad you're mine."

She nodded before kissing me and backing away slowly while murmuring. "Always."

With a growl I slapped her ass as she raced of to grab the money and go have fun. I turned back to Damon. "Now, tell me what's really eating at you."

He sighed. "It's Stefan. Every time I've tried to get closer to him over the years it's always ended badly. Hell, he sent Lexi to New York because he thought I had my humanity switch off. He thought I was a serial killer for Christ sake."

I shrugged. "You are a serial killer. You've killed five hundred and forty three people that I know of. That's not including the war and the random evil people you seem to like snacking on."

He shrugged. "I'm a vampire, it's my nature."

I shook my head. "Lexi and I have been in this apartment ever since you left us here, she's not killed a single person in all that time. It's not your vampire nature that leads you Damon, it's the human in you. I've let it go as I've always known you'll eventually want to change. No being wants to look back and see the dead in their wake knowing they were innocent."

He shivered and I sighed. "If you feel the need to kill might I suggest you find the evil ones until you're ready to take the next step to just snatch, eat, erase."

He frowned. "I already know how to do that."

I nodded. "But you don't live it. Until you do you won't truly be free of his self righteous judgement. After all he judges himself just as harshly as he judges you. Might I suggest you compel a shrink and talk through your problems with them. Working through your issues is where success lay. With or without a shrink eventually everything is going to come to a head and implode or explode depending on how much effort you put into it because like you Stefan has to work through his own issues."

He nodded before sighing. "Perhaps you're right, but for now let's find a bar. I could use a stiff drink and I mean alcohol. Listening to him on the way over was enough for a coma."

I smirked and headed to the door where Lexi had left a few minutes earlier. Damon sighed. "So you and Lexi huh?"

I nodded. "She's mine now. If you're thinking about a double act I'll remind you of what I did to the rapist in Saint Petersburg. "

He grimaced and I chuckled. "I don't share my woman with males ever. I'm greedy and very hostile that way."

He agreed. "In that case drinks are on me tonight. I hate to think what she and Stefan are getting up to."

I snorted. "She wouldn't and he wouldn't dare. If this is a ploy to get me to do what I did to the rapist to Stefan than perhaps the twins in the Baltic's can be revisited with both of you."

He looked sick now. "No, there's no need. I really don't want to remember that ever again let alone live it."

I shrugged. "Suits yourself. I wasn't the one that-"

He genuinely threw up in the potted plant outside the apartment building. Sighing I headed to the car and waited. He didn't take too awful long to get the regurgitated blood and alcohol out of his mouth.

We spent the next year and a half traveling together until Lexi finally found us in Hawaii. I was eating some roasted pig while he was enjoying the bar maid in more ways than one. I'd finally gotten tired of the place yet again when she showed up ready for some fun in the sun.

Smiling I gave her just that as I rented out a private beach and we made like bunnies all over the beach and in the water. It was a surprise for the fishes if nothing else. Damon left once again towards the mid nineties while Lexi insisted she at least try to tan.

When that failed I cheered her up with more ravenous sex. The worst of it seemed to be out of our system as we slowed down in the later nineties and instead got to know more about each other. I began giving her a proper and thorough mind scape introduction and helped her build her own.

When she finally got it all she found her mental abilities were much more improved. Her compulsion was stronger but not yet at an original vampire's level while ability to slip into other's minds and read their thoughts came a lot smoother to her now.

I gave her all that I knew on most subjects while helping her understand it all memory by memory. While that's not a lot of time in the real world inside her mind as I was at the time I experienced it all with her one moment to the next.

When we finished she asked. "How are you planning to get back?"

Sighing I told her. "You remember all you've learned from my first life right?"

She nodded and I told her. "I practiced siphoning with the girl that knocked boots with Stefan. FYI I gave her the power to protect the kid so when he's well and truly recovered I'm sure she'll tell him the good news."

She stilled before smiling. "Always thought he'd make a great dad."

I nodded. "I did to so long as he's not his ripper self. Anyway, I intend to abuse. The Gemini coven's prison realms to get copies of the major gems. That plus I intend to drain all the magic from every place including the hundred dead witches place in all three prison realms before we leave. That and killing several powerful beings will see me restored an then some. Hell, I've a feeling I might just win if I face twilight again after I'm done here. No, the real problem will be finding the reality we need as they're all clustered and duplicated. I want my mates back not someone else's."

She sighed. "It could take time and lots of it."

I agreed. "Yes, but with that same time you yourself will be at my side won't you?"

She smiled. "Of course I will, I just hope we can change Stefan's future."

I shrugged. "I need energy and a hell realm has lots of it. It's also one of my targets."

We wondered the globe partying and having a blast till two thousand and nine. We headed back to mystic falls after I gave her several amulets ones stopping vervain and even the need for an invitation. She wore them on a charmed anklet that was indestructible. Her daylight ring was changed as she got her clit pierced. A small stone was added as not to cause discomfort and I applied generous healing charms at her request.

I of course wore a few white oak preventative amulets and we'd long since tracked her sire line down to Nik's. With relief there we had little to fear as we entered Mystic Falls once more. A small glamour to adjust their perception before and they could see enough similarities for family resemblance in me that I'd been granted access to my lands again.

I of course showed them all the legal proof and even did the councils tests. I slowed my own healing with a spell and everything else was a walk in the park. Even there compass wouldn't point towards me if they had it.

With the tattoos neither I nor Lexi were targets at all for these humans. She happily went to greet Stefan ahead of me and pulled the towel seen until I walked in and told her. "No teasing the human love, have your day with Stefan then we leave."

Damon came in and saw us and I could feel the sorrow on himself. Sighing I told him. "We'll talk at my place for now Lexi love, while you're tempting enough to take you here and now you know I might kill Damon if he saw you naked again."

She smirked before teasing Elena one last time before heading upstairs to change. I turned to the poor girl then back to Damon. "We really do need to talk. Start the car I'll be there in a minute."

He was out the door before I even finished. Elena finally asked. "Who are you? And who is she?"

I chuckled. "That is Lexi, and I'm her mate, Ryan. I'm sure Stefan has mentioned Lexi and I doubt Damon has mentioned me."

She corrected me. "Actually he has. You're something of a spooky story he told Bonnie about. The big bad witch as he calls you."

I snorted. "Not likely. Though if it comes to it I can be scary at times. I've known Damen since he was human. Him and Stefan both. Back then I went by Zach Masters. I'm sure your ancestor Gilbert wrote about me as I helped the council back then while trying to get the vampires to leave. They wouldn't heed my warnings and thus chaos."

She nodded. "Stefan said you had something to do with it and Damon mentioned an invincible pack he has hidden away."

I chuckled. "He actually kept it? I wonder if he at least sold the diamonds in it, if not then they've got a decent amount of power to them. Anyway, I've got an old friend I need to speak to and you really shouldn't expect much of Stefan today. Lexi takes him out on his birthdays to have fun on occasion and she's been wanting a good party."

I left her there and headed outside to leave with Damon. We headed to my place where I dug up my old diamond pack. He wasn't too interested in it as he started. "So about Elena-"

I stopped him with a look before saying. "Save it. We have a tradition to uphold."

I pulled a bottle of aged whisky from the pack and he grabbed the glasses. I took a couple joints from the tin case in my back pocket. Once the glasses were poured and the joints lit I asked. "What's eating you up?"

He began telling me about killing the pregnant Gail in a fit of rage. I'd hoped he was passed that kind of outburst but apparently not. When he finished I sighed and told him. "I'm sure you've suspected for a while now that I'm not just some ordinary witch. Well, here's my story."

I told him of my previous lives and how I got all the way to here. Why I wanted to go back so badly and the worst things I'd done and had been done to me. He took it all in before saying. "So an original vampire huh?"

I nodded. "And I've always been in your corner Damon no matter how you see me, we met because you came to my shop asking about consumption and stayed to talk morals and guidelines to being a man."

He shook his head. "I don't care about any of that. I was just curious as to what you were considered now."

I shrugged. "I'd like to still be a friend. I'll understand if you feel differently though-"

He stopped me. "No. No, friend sounds about right. Hell, you've been at my side longer than my own brother has."

I smiled. "Friend it is then. Now, what the hell were who I thinking? Kathrines twin? Seriously?"

I smacked upside the back of his head. "She tore you apart last time and spit out the remains. There won't be much left if this one is the same!"

He stopped me. "No wait, you misunderstand, she's not anything like Kathrine. Hell I think I actually like her more at times. But no, she's with Stefan-"

Another smack to the back of the head while I took a hit of my joint. "You're falling for the same girl that looks like Kathrine at the same time as your brother? Are you an idiot? Did the Butkus waitresses turn your brain to mush?"

He didn't deny it at least but he did tell me we had other problems. I sighed. "Check in the trunk. I picked it up on the way here. It's been feeding on children so I thought it'd make a good scape goat."

He went outside and came back saying. "I can swing it. Time and place?"

I smiled. "Tonight at the grill. I'll do a bit of magic to get it to act how we need but after you stake it be sure not to drop any bodies. If you go after Lexi, Damon, all bets are off, I'd kill you friend or not."

He swallowed before agreeing and I worked my magic. Come sundown it'd do what we wanted. Damon of course needed a way in and I'd provide him an excellent opportunity. We left to the grill just after dark and I sent the vampire to attack two lovers trying to fuck in the basement access. It killed one before biting the other.

After that it went inside and cleaned up. Damon compelled the girl and I went inside for some tequila and to get a little frisky with Lexi. I caught her right as she was telling Elena about rock hard vamp sex. Smiling I walked behind her and wrapped my arms around her saying. "And what about witch sex. The ceiling wasn't so bad the doorways were interesting though."

Elena squeaked. "Ceiling?"

I nodded as Lexi told her. "Ryan here makes it special no matter when or where we find ourselves tangled together. He and I have found there's no place you can't have sex so long as you're willing to put the effort in."

I smirked before taking a shot of tequila she offered and saying. "I'll leave you two to talk Damon and I are going to join Stefan at the pool tables."

At my words Damon grabbed the bottle from the bar and headed over. I told Lexi. "Feel free to join us when you're done. I've an inclination that things are going to get interesting."

The vampire I'd brought was at the bar drinking and seemingly agitated. I joined Damon and Stefan for some pool while we waited. Ten minutes later the sheriff was there with a girl pointing towards the vampire at the bar.

It didn't pay them any attention until it was dosed and dragged outside. Damon asked the sheriff. "Are you sure?"

When she nodded he followed her out while the deputies guarded the exits. I flipped a blind and watched it play out. The vampire knocked the sheriff over before taking a few wooden bullets to the chest and finally getting staked by Damon.

With the matter settled the sheriff came back in with Damon who was faking being stunned. They talked a bit before she saw a now drunk Caroline who was sitting with Matt. She asked Matt to get her home while going to the bar to get onto the bartender.