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[Damon is not happy, and definitely not drunk enough for this. At first, he assumed he'd been hallucinating, on some trip after drinking bad blood. However, he has been roaming Wonderland for hours on this bright and early morning, while everyone else was likely asleep. He’s poked his head in where it doesn’t belong, waiting for the hallucination to fade. Spoilers: it doesn’t. He finally studies the communication device, accepting that this is either one very long dream or he’s actually here. Somehow. He’s on the main floor, pressed up against the marble pillar, staring up at the ceiling. It takes minimal effort to skim through previous entries before he switches to video.]

Question #1, for the masses: How drunk do you have to be for this place to start making sense? Because I’m starting to think this poor, lonely bottle's not gonna cut it. [Damon looks to the bottle in his hand with a little sigh, tapping his fingers on its surface.] Looks like we're not in Kansas anymore, Toto.

[He takes a long drink, swallows, and sends the camera a slow but absolutely charming smirk:]

Question #2: what’s the one thing you wish someone had told you on your first day in the merry old Land of Wonder, but failed to?

[Damon points a finger at the camera with the hand that's still partly wound around the bottle] And go. Best answers get a pony.

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[Damon is not a huge Mikael fan in general. He betrayed them, and he nearly killed Damon so he isn't a fan of his staying alive either. It seems like it'd cause more trouble than it was worth, but Klaus vs Mikael seemed like a way to have someone else deal with Klaus who wanted to use Elena as a bloodbag and had a hold on his brother who was trying to save Damon from death after he'd made a stupid decision trying to save Elena's life.

From Klaus. It's an endless circle of dying, saving, being used, being powerless.

In truth, Damon has a disdain for all versions of himself including this one. Even when he comes off as cocky as he does, there's that disdain always underneath it all. He quiets as she explains where she is coming from, because he wants to know. She knows a lot about him, and it's important for him to get a good read on her too so he knows what he can expect out of her. Her reasoning includes a kind of empathy that Damon struggles with. She doesn't like being in that position so she didn't want to put him in the same position. It says something about who she is, what she's about.

Caring can be dangerous in the worlds they live in.]

How many memories have you lost while you were here?

[If any, he doesn't know. He doesn't know both Elena and Bonnie have lost memories from the vendors. Hilariously, it's the last reason she gives which is hardest for him to wrap his head around. nevermind the fact that he is an irredeemable monster, and it's true whether or not he cares (and he does. sometimes he cares too damn much).]

...you-

What? [/fails to compute]

[Caring can be incredibly dangerous, but that's the person Cami's chosen to be both in their world, and this one. It's why she knows so much about not just Damon's history, but the Originals' and their time in Mystic Falls. Granted, she'd learned it all from Klaus' perspective, which she knows comes with a particular slant. But because she cares, Klaus has come closer to breaking some of those cycles--sometimes for better, sometimes for worse.

Damon presses with the logical question, a perfectly fair assumption--and an entirely wrong one, sparking a grin as Cami shakes her head.]

Here? Thankfully none. Back home, I got compelled...a lot. [Because of Klaus' paranoia, but also his good intentions. He really had been trying to protect Cami, even if he'd gone about it in entirely the wrong way.

Enough about that, though. Damon's shock is pretty priceless, leaving Cami to laugh as he struggles to come to terms with the idea that she'd actually liked him.]

You heard me.

You got compelled a lot. Which vampire are you close to? [Because that's how compulsion happens the most. There's a vampire who uses the person, and they compel away more than they need to know like he compelled Andie to not be afraid of him and his murderous ways. She ended up dead, and he knew very well it was his fault.

He tilts his head to the side, shaking it slightly]

I'm not sure I did. Are you sure I didn't compel you into liking me?

[the smirk widens at his face curiously even as she laughs. he knows better, of course, because she obviously knows enough to use vervain now.]

A few. Marcel Gerard, if you've heard of him. A guy named Josh. [But it doesn't take a psychic to guess which family Damon's likely most interested in.] The Mikaelsons. It was Klaus who was compelling me. It's been undone though, thanks to the power of decompulsion—which hurts like hell, for the record.

[And he's right; Cami does know to take vervain, even in Wonderland where there haven't been any of their world's vampires for months. He asks if she's sure, and despite the question being in jest she turns her phone just enough to show him the vervain she has growing on the windowsill nearby.]

Pretty sure. [Also not shocked at his skepticism. Cami leans forward a bit, looking down at the camera with a grin.] Also cautiously hopeful that you won't come up with a reason for me to change that opinion, but I suppose we'll have to see.

I have only ever heard of Klaus, and some of his family. They're not my favorite. Obviously. ...decompulsion? The hell is that?

[Damon has never heard of it before remotely. He knows people who are compelled get their memories back when they become a vampire, but she's human. So.

He tilts his head in utter confusion.]

Well, I have a habit of disappointing people so I wouldn't get your hopes up. [When people see good, they expect good after all.

He's not.

Good.]

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