Damon and Katherine

The relationship between cured vampire/human Damon Salvatore and cured vampire/witch doppelgänger Katherine Pierce has been complicated since their meeting in 1864, when Katherine stayed in their estate and Damon was serving in the Confederate army. Damon fell deeply in love with Katherine, but unbeknownst to him, she'd also been seeing his brother Stefan, sparking the brothers' lifelong rivalry. Their relationship ended when the town began eradicating the vampires. She was then taken away, and Damon and Stefan were shot by their own father while in an attempt to save her, causing the latters' turning into vampires. Damon since then, has spent the following 145 years obsessed with freeing her from her tomb, only to find out that she was never in it in the first place.
Katherine returns to his life in The Return. Damon initially acts flippant towards her, however she seduces him before telling him that she never loved him. Throughout the following seasons, Damon's feelings for Katherine have dwindled while Katherine still attempts to seduce him from time to time. It is later revealed that Katherine had in fact loved him and his brother, but would ultimately choose her own safety over them. Damon continued to resent her until Stefan expelled her soul from Elena's body.
They are known as "Datherine" and "Kamon" by fans.
==History==
Katherine and Damon's first scene together in Season One was when Damon and Katherine were in bed together in Children of the Damned. Katherine told Damon, "Stop it!" while laughing, and he then said, "Make me". Katherine turned around and showed her vampire face and growled. Katherine's maid Emily then walked in on the two, and told Katherine that her friend Pearl wanted to see her. Katherine told Damon that the "fun was over" then he says "Mmm, no". Then Katherine kissed him. Katherine dressed in a corset and talked with Pearl outside about the townspeople hunting for vampires. After Katherine is exposed in Blood Brothers, Damon becomes desperate to rescue her.
He hits the man holding the key to the vampire wagon over the head, grabbing the key out of the man's pocket and opening the wagon which imprisoned Katherine. He and Stefan took her out, and removed her muzzle. They try to remove the ropes which hold Katherine, but Damon gets shot. Stefan abandons Katherine and rushes over to Damon. He picks up a gun but is shot as well. The two brothers die, and Katherine doesn't care whether or not she ever sees Damon again, but says to Stefan that she loves him and promises that they will be together again, just before he dies.
==Throughout The Vampire Diaries Series==
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In The End of the Affair, Katherine calls Damon and says she knows where Stefan is and it turns out she was right.
In Disturbing Behavior, she returns to Mystic Falls and poses as Elena without anyone knowing, She knocks on Damon's door making him thinks it's Elena coming to apologize until he realizes it's Katherine . She asks him if he wants to go leave town with her temporarily on a road trip and he says yes.
During the road trip, in The Reckoning, Katherine starts to interrogate Damon about his and Elena's relationship where they eventually make out but Damon stops her by saying that Katherine just doesn't do it for him anymore. Later, Damon discovers that Katherine has kidnapped Jeremy so she can use him to track down Mikael. Damon asks Katherine for his phone, who somehow stole it from him, and finds out Klaus is back in Mystic Falls and gets back in his car to travel back to Mystic Falls. Katherine tries to him by saying that the Damon she knew wouldn't be so stupid, Damon replies that he wouldn't have done it for her which upsets her. While Damon is back in Mystic Falls, Katherine with Jeremy's help discovers the resting place of Mikael.
In Smells Like Teen Spirit, Katherine is still trying to wake Mikael where Damon calls her, telling her to speed up the awakening process. In the end, Katherine is attacked by Mikael as he starts to feed on her.
In Homecoming, Katherine returns to town posing as Elena again to help Damon and Elena take down Klaus, but the plan is failed when Stefan shows up to save Klaus. However, in the end, it was reveled that Katherine planned for Stefan to save Damon because Damon would have die along with Klaus. She also confesses to Stefan that she'd loved him, but also loved Damon . Katherine's quote from this scene was "I loved you. I've loved Damon too. Humanity is a vampire's greatest weakness...no matter how easy it is to turn it off- it just keeps trying to fight it's way back in. Sometimes i let it..."
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They were reunited in American Gothic. When Damon and Stefan met Katherine with Rebekah at the restaurant, Stefan finds out that Katherine was using Elijah, Damon gave her kind of sad look. After this scene, we see Katherine in her house together with Damon and Rebekah, to gave them the cure, which was fake. After Rebekah goes upstairs, Damon and Katherine remain alone. We even see Katherine smile at Damon's jokes. When her ex-lover puts his hand in tank full of vervain water, we see fear in Katherine's eyes. But right after that she shoves his head in the very same tank, grabbed the fake cure and went on the run from Rebekah. In the next scene with Katherine, she's trying to convince Elijah into doing a deal with Klaus. After her miserable fail to convince him, she manipulates him with her charm. The one we saw her use on Mason Lockwood. As for Damon, he didn't mention Katherine in this episode after their last scene together.
In The Originals, Katherine came happy to Salvatore boarding house and told them that Klaus is gone. But she looked too happy for someone who lost the love of her life.
In She's Come Undone, we found out that she still has her emotions turned on. She gets angry at Elena, because she turned Elijah against her (he didn't make the deal with Klaus). After that she lets her cell doors open, so her doppelgänger could escape, kill people and then fell guiltiness, after she turns her emotions back on. In the next Damon and Katherine scene, the two are in the library and taunt each other with boyfriend/girlfriend problems. Katherine sits in Damon's lap In the very same scene, Katherine sits in Damon's lap, plays with his hair and uses her sexy voice to talk to him. Before anything else could happen, Stefan interrupted them and she told Damon, that she left Elena out.
In Graduation, Katherine tried to kill Elena, but the last one used the Cure on her. In her defense of wanting to kill her, Katherine said that it was because Bonnie didn't make her immortal like Silas was and because Elena had a better life. But that was right after Elena chose Damon and we don't know where Katherine was at that moment. Referring to Elena having a better life, may be that Elena got to be happy with Damon, while Damon insisted that he despised Katherine. We don't know yet if one of the reasons for wanting to kill Elena, was jealousy.
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In Season Five, Katherine seeks protection from Damon knowing he still has at least has some feelings hidden deep down inside, but he sells her out to Silas who drains her of the cure.
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In I Was Feeling Epic,
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==Quotes==
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:(Katherine wakes up trapped in the Tomb)
:Damon: "Hello, Katherine."
:Katherine: "Where am I?"
:Damon: "Where you should've been all along. I thought you would've learned your lesson by now, messing with a Bennett witch."
:Katherine: "You should've killed me."
:Damon: "Death would've been too kind."
:Katherine: "No. Damon, don't. Damon, don't. You need me. Elena's in danger."
:Damon: "From who? You're lying. You're always lying."
:Katherine: "Why do you think I haven't killed her? Because she's the doppelgänger. She needs to be protected."
:Damon: "Then I'll protect her, while you rot in hell."
:-- Masquerade
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:(Damon is making Katherine relive the day she found her family slaughtered by Klaus)
:Damon: "What a mess. "
:Katherine: "Damon?"
:Damon: "Okay, I'll say it. I miss Klaus. I mean, the way this guy used to torture you. Sword in the daddy. Nice touch."
:Katherine: "Get out of my head!"
:Damon: "Remind me how this slaughter went down again? Oh, right. Klaus was gonna kill you in a blood sacrifice. And you, being you, ran for the hills. Only to come back and find your entire family had been massacred. So if I'm adding this up right, your family's entire death was all your fault."
:Katherine: "No! No! No! No!"
:(cut back to the real world; Damon holds a pillow over Katherine's face while she sleeps)
:Liz: "Put the pillow down, Damon."
:Damon: "Liz."
:Liz: "If you kill her, it's murder. I'm gonna have to bring you in, lock up. There's all that paperwork."
:Damon: "Every awful thing I've ever done is linked to her. She taught me how to kill. How to enjoy it. She ruined me. And I can't take any of that back."
:(Liz takes the pillow from Damon)
:Liz: "Look at how much control she still has over you, Damon. Prove her wrong."
:-- 500 Years of Solitude
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:Damon: "Uh-huh. She is brilliant."
:Stefan: "We haven't noticed that Katherine's been inhabiting Elena's body for weeks and that's all you have to say?"
:Damon: "Yep."
:Stefan: "And you realize that it was Katherine who broke up with you? It wasn't, uh, Elena."
:Damon: "Mm-hm."
:Stefan: "Right. So your little murder spree with Enzo where you, uh, killed Aaron, you nearly killed Jeremy, you tried to kill Wes but you got infected with that ripper virus, that was all you reacting to Katherine."
:Damon: "I'm trying to figure out why you decided to tell a starving, bloodthirsty, vampire-feeding ripper that his nemesis is still walking around alive and well while I'm stuck in this cell and can't do anything about it."
:Stefan: "I have it under control."
:Damon: "I'd love to hear this."
:-- Gone Girl
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==Trivia==
*While Damon claimed many times that his love for Katherine was real, it's unclear if it is true based on two main examples:
**The fact that while Damon declared Katherine never compelled him, it proved to be false in a flashback.
**Damon may have had a Sire Bond to her, which would explain his loyalty to her years after they departed. It could have been broken when he turned his humanity off during the 1970's. Julie Plec has said outright that Damon was not sired to Katherine, his devotion was simply love.
*Katherine twice admitted that she loved both the Salvatore brothers:
**To Elena in As I Lay Dying.
**To Stefan in Homecoming.
**However, Katherine always claimed that she's in love with Stefan.
*The relationship between Damon and Katherine is actually the most tragic and most complicated relationship. From love to hate just in one second. Also, Katherine once said "Love, hate, such a fine line" referring to Stefan but actually it was more like her and Damon.
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==See also==
Category:Relationships
Category:The Vampire Diaries (series)
Category:The Vampire Diaries Relationships
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Category:Friendly Relationship
Category:Enemy Relationship