This is Damon (or Demon, I like to switch between them) and I wasn’t planning on getting a ryukin but the second I saw him I knew I had to get him. He’s the cutest thing and I love him ❤

Plus it’s so hard to find any good quality goldfish in Australia so when i spotted this red and white ryukin I didn’t want to miss the opportunity.

damondemon

Jade stood outside of her mom's bedroom for a minute after her request had been granted to have a friend over. Her mom was talking to Damon. It was difficult for Jade to think of Damon as her father when in actuality, he wasn't. Not legally or any other way. Jade didn't hold it against him, Elena had explained it to her and it made enough sense she supposed, but that conversation.. it got her a little bit upset. Would it kill him to meet her just one time? Did he really dislike the idea of kids so much that he would tell her mother that she could come and visit sans her own daughter?

Jade shook her head. Come hell or high water she wasn't going to let Damon win this time. Especially after she caught her mother wiping silent tears from her cheeks on more than one occasion.

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She had absolutely no idea what she was getting herself into. Taking money from Elena's stash felt wrong and right at the same time. Elena had gone to New York City with Bonnie for four days, she promised she would stay out of trouble but Jade was determined to get through to the man who her mother supposedly loved and she had very little time to do it; especially since a phone call just would not suffice. There had only been enough money for some food, a couple cab fares and a one way ticket, with any luck Damon could at the very least help her out to get back home. Not that she really felt like he owed her anything, but in her eyes he did owe Elena something.

The taxi took her from the airport to the address she found on one of Damon's old letters to Elena. The house was... was 'gorgeous' grandeur enough a word to describe it? Jade was breathless as she looked up at it, it was worlds more stunning than the boarding house. When she saw the baby blue Camaro parked in the half moon shaped drive, she knew she was at the right place. With a few deep breaths she managed to walk up to the door and ring the doorbell, she could hear the melodic chime from where she stood. Suddenly her brain was wracked with what she should say, or what he would say.. or do. God this was a terrible idea, but there was absolutely no turning back now. There was literally nowhere to run or hide. She was about to meet Damon for the first time.

"I'll see you soon." Elena's voice was soft and happy as she sat on their bed. It had been a while since she and Damon had gotten to spend any quality time together. She had been swamped with school work and he had been helping Liz with an in-depth supernatural case close to the border of Mystic Falls and its neighboring city. Tonight, she was especially excited to see him over dinner at their favorite restaurant, she had a secret to share that she hoped he would be equally excited about.

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At 18, Elena was at the beginning of her young life, she felt unstoppable and ready to take on everything the world had in store for her, except... vampirism. Elena was convinced that when she regained consciousness in the hospital that she had survived the car crash, the roads were icy and another vehicle had hit her head on. There was only one reason she had "survived". A few days earlier, Elena had seemed to miraculously recover in this very same hospital from a brutal bout of pneumonia, it was as though overnight she went from clinging to life by a thread to completely cured. She didn't question it, she was just happy to be better. So when that car hit her as she was driving to her friend's house, had she not been given vampire blood to cure her pneumonia she would have been a goner.

From that point forward things weren't easy, she fed from people without restraint, dealt with emotions which threatened to consume her. It was impossible to spend time with her friends and family. However a blessing finally came when Damon Salvatore found her, Mr. Hospital Miracle Cure Donor scooped her up when she was at her very worst, sitting beside a dead body with blood smeared on her lips as she wept over the life she took for the sake of her own hunger.

Damon brought her back into the light when she thought she would never be able to see it again. His blood had accidentally created her and there was something about it that made her trust him with her life. As time went on, they fell in love and became inseparable, after all it wasn't everyday that a girl found her savior, best friend and lover all in the same person.

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The distance that had been between them as a result of his job and her college schedule had been difficult, she was preparing to graduate with a degree in child psychology. She constantly felt a pull to drop everything to go and be with him and resisting had gotten harder and harder to bear. Today was their fifth wedding anniversary, though they had been a couple for around eight. Elena chose a black dress that she knew Damon would appreciate, she let her hair fall around her shoulders after clasping a simple silver necklace around her neck. God she missed him and was almost giddy with excitement as she put the finishing touches on her make up.

Once she had arrived at the restaurant, Elena waited in the lobby, too eager to see him to sit and wait at their table. Her news was practically eating her up, for weeks she had been finalizing things and the last thing she needed was his signature next to hers.