CHAPTER TWO: fifty shades of Grayson

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NICHOLAS BECK WAS STILL STRAPPED DOWN, HIM AND ENZO NOW IN ANOTHER ROOM.  Both were unconscious.

Max opened the door, pulling the IV line of vervain from both their arms. "Enzo, Nicholas, wake up," he held a syringe in his hand, facing Enzo first. "when was the last time you were out in civilization?"

"What's that?" Enzo asked weakly.

"The fuck are you...doing?" Nicholas questioned, slowly turning his head to the other side.

"An insurance policy," Max replied to Enzo, before turning around and grabbing the second syringe. "guarantees you'll both come back to me. I'm giving you guys the day off." He placed the syringe down, going over and grabbing opening a box before pulling out some blood bags, he placed them down, then turning to Nicholas with the syringe. "You two and Damon have some catching up to do.
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Nicholas Beck was surprised to see how the new world looks. He smiled as he looked back towards Lorenzo,practically bouncing up and down. "So,any plans for our first day out in the world?"

Lorenzo looked at the younger vampire,gave a smile of his own. "Revenge."

Nicholas face shifted,disappointment. "Oh, right," He had knew who,but,he didn't want to see the man again.  He hated him, and never wanted to see him again, but the smirk on Enzo's face had the other distracted enough that he hadn't realized he was still following him.
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"I'm just saying, after our revenge, that we need to catch up on everything we missed. Like, books. Or movies. Oh, I always wanted to adopt a pet, what pet should I adopt?"  Nicholas ranted.

"Nicholas," Lorenzo turned to the younger vampire, capturing his hand in his own. "please, love, do me a favor and be silent."

Enzo tilted his head up, pulling Nicholas into a kiss. Nicholas kissed him back. "You've got to stop kissing me to shut me up." Nicholas spoke, but smiled.

"You've never complained about it before." Enzo smiled at him.

"Shut up," Nicholas smiled.

"Make me," Enzo replied, smiling when Nick had shaken his head.

"You're never gonna let me live that down, huh?"

"I wouldn't say never, we have eternity together, after we get our revenge on Damon that is."
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The two had gone to Whittmore college, as Wes had told them that Damon would for sure be there. The door opened, both Enzo and Nick sitting in the back row, next to each other. "21051," Enzo speaks.

"Enzo." Damon breathes out, shocked. "Nick."

"It's been a while, mate."

"Who the hell are you?" Stefan asked.

"Lorenzo... But my friends call me Enzo. Ah. Kidding. I don't have any friends. Well, other than Nicholas, here." Both Enzo and Nick walked down. He extended his hand, but laughed when

"Enzo and Nick's another Augustine vampire. Our cells were next to each other." Damon explained, then turning to Enzo and Nick. "So we're here to meet somebody-- Wes Maxfield. You know him?"

"That's your first question for me? Not "how are you? How'd you survive in that fire I left you two to die in"?" Enzo asked.

"Uh, does somebody want to tell me what the hell is going on here?" Aaron questioned.

"I'd love to. Have a seat. Been waiting seventy years to tell my story." Enzo jumped on the desk, lifting his hand for Nicholas to take and follow after as he pulled the other up.

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"Damon, Nick and I had been locked in those cells for years, tortured, beaten, humiliated, but we weren't gonna let them break us, no. We decided if we were going to escape we needed to work together. We needed each other." Enzo says.

"He's not sending her." Stefan speaks, walking back in.

Nick rolled his eyes. "Truly tragic. Now, shit up before I rip you head off."

"Tragic. Can I continue my story now, please?" R so mocks, annoyed.

"Doesn't he know we have Aaron?" Damon asked his brother.

"He doesn't care. He's willing to risk it."

"What? Let me talk to him! He'll listen to me."  Aaron says.

Nick lifts up one of the pencils from behind the desk, lifting it to see how sharp it was.

"What part of 'he doesn't care' are you not registering?" Damon questioned the other. 

Enzo  hopes down from the desk, then rips a chair from the floor. Nick there the pencil directly into Damon's neck. "Where were we?" Enzo asked, Nick followed to stand next to him. "Uh, ah, right. I was telling our story, and you were all politely listening. So we'd given Damon all of our blood ration so he'd have the strength to escape and save us in the process." He gestured to himself and Nick.

"Our plan began perfectly, didn't it?" Nick sarcastically asked Damon. "We were waiting in the cage for him to release Enzo and I, waiting for our friend, our cellmate.

"one of the only two souls with whom I'd connected with in all those years of captivity."  Enzo says.

"Then a fire starts, burns out of control, but Damon just can't get the damn cage open. He looks at us, in the eye as if he doesn't even recognize us, turns around, saves himself, leaving us to die." Nick forced a fake, smile. "Honestly, it was kinda funny, now that I think about it. I mean, we trusted this, random vampire who would always talk shit about his own family, and we truly believed that he would rescue us?"

"I didn't want to leave you two there!" Damon yelled back, because,  he viewed Nick as a brother. Damon swore he was a better brother in those five years than Stefan to Damon or Damon himself had been to Stefan in the passed hundred years.

"Well, you obviously didn't die." Stefan spoke, careless.

"No. Unfortunately We lived. We were spared by one of the scientists so we could spend another fifty years on a table being opened and closed. Now that we've all been acquainted, I'm gonna go find something to wet my whistle." Enzo speaks, walking out, he grabs Nick's hand, pulling the other with him.

Nick have a glare to Damon before turning back to Enzo, smiling wildly at the other.  "So, if we manage to escape, maybe somehow trick Maxwell, what do you want to do?"

Enzo pulled Nick closer to him, smiling at the other. Nick was a inch and a half taller than Enzo, always making jokes about it. The only thing that could ever truly annoy Enzo about him. Enzo pulled the other a bit down.

The two continued to search the next room, finding a bottle of liquor.

"Ah. It's frightening what you can find on campus these days." Enzo walked back into the room, lifting up the bottle.

Stefan spoke monotone. "Knock yourself out. We're going with plan "B"."

"Damon's not. Damon's staying right here. He knows all my secrets, so he knows how ornery I can get when I don't get my way." Enzo replied, pouring two glass shots for himself and Nick.

"Call me if you find anything, kill him if you don't." Damon told his brother.

Stefan tilted his head, gesturing for Aaron to follow him. "Come on." The two walked out the door."

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Enzo drank the liquor, staring out the window. "What about cricket? That ever become a thing?"

"No." Damon answered.

"Oh, shame. Fun sport. Not that I can play. Took up drawing for a while. Of course I had no pencil, so I'd just prick my finger and paint the cell wall with my blood." Enzo tells him.

"What do you want? You want me to feel guilty? I couldn't save you guys. Now where's Elena?" Damon angrily says.

Enzo grunted, leaning over. Nicholas placed his hand on the other's arm, but soon he felt the pain too. Nicholas grind down his teeth, trying to keep from making a sound.

"What's wrong my with you guys?" Damon asked.

"Like you care," Nicholas shot back.

"Wes injected us with poison that will stop our heart. Nick and I'll desiccate if we don't return for the antidote."

"All the more reason to tell me where he is. Look. You get the antidote, I'll save my girlfriend, we'll kill Wes together." Damon stood up,

"Did you even think about it after you left, the experiments, the cell, or did you just go out and live your merry life to its fullest?" Enzo asked, walking closer, glancing back at Nicholas.

"No, let me guess, you went on, continuing to talk shit about your brother, only now, you added Enzo and I to your shit list," Nick glared at him, now also not feeling the pain.

"Look at me. If you guys go back, we go back together. We finish this for good. Come on." Damon tried to convince, lifting his hand.

Enzo took it, pulling him closer as he twisted his wrist. "You're not gonna see your girl again, Damon, because I want the antidote, and Wes told me not to come back until you were dead." He tossed Damon out the window.

"Now, this is getting fun!" Nick yelled, smiling. Enzo smiled as well, happy to see the other's smile.

Nick sped out.

"I'm you just broke your clavicle. Probably a few lumbar and thoracic vertebrae." Nick sped towards him, grabbing his arm and breaking it.

"It's funny what you learn about your body when it's taken apart like a bloody automobile right before your eyes!" Enzo walked towards the two, Nick, noticing how he walked as if one leg was useless.

"Enzo." Nick halted, talking a step closer to Enzo, before realizing that he two found it difficult to walk.

"I'm not gonna fight you, Enzo, Nick," Damon tells the two.

Enzo punched Damon. "What are you gonna do then, run? You're good at that." Enzo went to lunch him again, but Damon caught his hand.

Nick sped over, grabbing a hold of Damon's elbow.

"I want to find my girlfriend." Damon says, throwing Enzo.

Nick pulled on Damon's arm, flinging him to another side. Then, Nick sped over to Enzo, biting down the sound of pain. He helped Enzo up.

"While you were out running wild, I had one single thought, that I'd have the pleasure of killing you." Enzo sped forward, grabbing Damon's thrust before he groaned.

"Enzo!" Nick yelled, speeding over, and catching Enzo before he fell back,

"Enzo, look at me." Damon says.

"Bloody poison! Nick," Enzo speaks.

"Where is she? Where's Elena.Tell me where she is!" Damon demands of the two.

"Or what?! You never see her again? It might be good for you to know what it's like to miss someone for the next sixty years."

"Go to hell, Damon," Nick grunted out, Enzo's body started to continue to desiccate, until the black virens covered his body.

"Enzo, look at me. Hey! Enzo! Where is she? Where is she? Enzo, hey. Nick," Damon speaks, seeing the other was still awake. Nick's body contoured to desiccate, now unable to even get himself and Enzo away from Damon.
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"Nick, love," Enzo's voice called, gently shaking the other who started to wake up.

"What the fuck happened?" Nick asked.

"I cured you, both," Damon spoke. Enzo speed forward, but Damon shoved his hand into the other's chest. "Don't even think about it, Nick."

"You asked me if I thought about you after I escaped, and answer is no, and I sure as hell don't feel guilty about leaving you two because in order for me to save myself and leave you, I had to shut off my humanity, damn it, so I flipped the switch, and then I felt nothing, no remorse, no regret, no pain." Damon tells them.

"And now what do you feel, remorse, regret, pain?" Enzo grunted, his hand slightly lifted to single to Nick to not attack Damon. "Even if we forgave you, Damon, would that make you less of a horrible person?"

"We're even, Enzo." Damon pulled his hand of Enzo's chest, pushing him back. Nick caught Enzo.

"Why not kill us, then?" Nick glared. "I'd honestly have preferred that than living to be tortured in Augustin."

"You were one of the most important people in my life, and you ruined me, but that's just who you are, that's who you'll always be... A monster." Enzo told him, grabbing Nicholas's hand and walking away. "Let's go, Nick."
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"I've got an idea to cheer you up," Nick smiled, pulling Enzo to follow him down the alley.

"What's that, love?" Enzo questioned back.

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