"Maybe." Damon wasn't sure why Klaus would have done it, except for daggering Kol, but it wasn't like Damon was a threat. They'd effectively proven that.

He watched Ric, the upset in the look and the drink and the question, and shrugged, glancing at him a little uncertainly. "Talk to him. Find out what I should remember. Suggest Klaus compelling me as what happened, so he doesn't think I'm being deliberately...cruel or forgetful?" That seemed fair. They didn't have any reason to hate him besides his brother, and apparently Damon hadn't hated him before, and hadn't Ric woken them up to get allies, not more enemies. "The tell him I'm sorry, but...I'm...taken?"

It was a question, because was he? They hadn't talked about that. Hadn't told anyone about them. Hadn't defined themselves at all, and that left him unsure of if that's what Ric's reaction was. he knew his own to the bite had been jealousy and possessiveness, though.

...He'd just never had anyone be jealous and possessive back.