Legacies revealed that Alaric saved Kaleb even after he killed people, and Ric's relationship with Damon in The Vampire Diaries explains why. It's been long known in the second TVD spinoff series that Alaric Saltzman (Matthew Davis) took in teenage vampire, Kaleb (Chris Lee), and brought him to the Salvatore School for Gifted Students years ago in order to help him get control of his newly-turned vampire nature.
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