( it's hard to feel any kind of amusement when thinking about this. that he leeched the joy out of sam is something damon regrets, but not enough to try to pretend any of this is okay. )

Klaus. Wanted to be a hybrid vampire-werewolf, and to do it he had to complete a whole ritual. Killed a werewolf, turned Elena's mom into a vampire and killed her... then killed Elena. Her best friend did a spell so that her uncle ( this word the link tinges as complicated, giving the sensation of father and uncle simultaneously ) would die and she would live.

( said like that it all sounds so... ridiculous. it had been terrifyingat the time, and still is, really, but... an outsider couldn't know the way his stomach had bottomed out as he saw elena on the ground, the grief they all felt for jenna. it just sounds like something out of a bad fantasy novel. )