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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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That does sound like me.

[Damon tilts his head to the side with a little smirk, because he still didn't get Cami liking having him around. It's strange. He's a dick. He is very openly a dick unless he's trying to charm someone for some reason or another. There's always a reason though. He doesn't need a reason to be a dick.

His gaze narrows more at the She's important to me (a wave of a bunch of possessive emotions winds around him. it's unfair, it's selfish, Damon's both of these things without apology at this point in his slow development). Vampires are Elena Gilbert catnip. Elena Gilbert is also vampire catnip, and Damon is just cautious.]

That's Elena. Always helpful. [he smirks then but elena is compassionate, far more compassionate than him] She's important to me too. [more important. there's the implication wrapped around his words.]

[Angel doesn't miss that inflection, the possessive nature of it, the shift in Damon's stance, however subtle it may be. There's a great deal being said in between the words they've actually chosen to offer one another, and his gaze narrows slightly in reply, thoughtful, skeptical.]

Then we shouldn't have any problems.

[Because at the end of the day, Angel assumes that Elena's safety means a great deal to the both of them. It doesn't necessarily make them friends, but perhaps tenuous allies.]

Edited 2016-07-16 19:00 (UTC)

[Damon lifts up the drink he's currently downing in Angel's direction as he tilts his head to the side.]

No, we shouldn't.

[Assuming they both care about Elena and both care about her safety, they shouldn't have any at all. God, he has some serious hero hair though for being a vampire.]

[There's something about Damon that still doesn't sit right with him, if only because their encounters in the past had been so tense, if brief, but it's a step in the right direction-- a tenuous truce, a common interest that would keep them from marking one another as enemies right off the bat. Maybe.]

Guess that's that.

[As ever, Angel is a champion conversationalist.]

So. When do I get that pony?

[Damon is a champion conversationalist when he wants to be, but he usually doesn't want to be. Two peas in a pod. He does smirk at the question.]

You tell me the place, and I'll be sure to drop it off with a bow.

[He'll speed right on over with a hand picked pony. Special delivery for Hero-Hair.]

[If an actual pony does show up, Angel is pretty sure Cordelia is going to have a conniption, but in the name of keeping a running gag going:]

Angel Investigations, fourth floor. Door is always open.

[More or less. Not like he needs to sleep.]

[Damon closes the video without another word, but he does dart over later with all his blur of vampire speed to aid him.

A pony is left in that open door.

It's not a real one.

But it is one chosen specifically for Angel from Damon's massive group of them on the floor of his otherwise classy room.

Enjoy]

[It will forever have a place of honor on his shelf. That pony was well-earned.]

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